The idea of earnestness took off with the Industrial Revolution, but started to become unfashionable in the late 19th century and declined through the entire 20th:pic.twitter.com/05eDuny6Eo
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It tracks the word, yes, but does it track the changes in meaning too? Surely the word could not have kept the same meaning over the time studied, or have the same nuanced meaning we ascribe to it today?
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Is the definition dependent on other words/ideas that changed themselves?
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