[Age of Reason]

The only divergence, in my dictionaries, is word swap "boy" for "youth".

That is not the only divergence.

I posted to you a much more significant divergence, which you ignore--

Or perhaps you missed seeing it during "a quick perusal" of my post.

Samuel Johnson did NOT include the word virgin in the first edition of his dictionary; which was published in 1755. I own the set

Most odd, since Samuel Johnson used the word in his other writings often enough:

"The virgin who too soon aspires to celebrity and conquest perishes by childish vanity, ignorant credulity, or guiltless indiscretion." -Samuel Johnson

"But her indignation cannot be thought violent when we consider her not only as a virgin" -Samuel Johnson

"the corrupter of virgin innocence" -Samuel Johnson

"a fine in old times due to the Laird at the marriage of a virgin" -Samuel Johnson

"an orphan virgin robbed of her little portion by a treacherous lover" -Samuel Johnson

And so on.

I suggest you again do a "a quick perusal" of your Johnson dictionary--but a little less quickly this time.

Odd that he would leave out a word he used so often.

Ergo, there was less than nothing incorrect with my use of the word [peruse]

Odd you would say you did a "quick perusal."

How does one "quickly" read thoroughly?

USAGE NOTE Peruse has long meant “to read thoroughly” and is often used loosely when one could use the word read instead. Sometimes people use it to mean “to glance over, skim,” as in I only had a moment to peruse the manual quickly, but this usage is widely considered an error. Sixty-six percent of the Usage Panel finds it unacceptable.

[cyborg]

Age are you a christian?

[cyborg]

BTW, I am not asking from a self righteous POV. If you aren't a christian then your views/opinions about this issue are neither here nor there with me. I think they're pretty 'unusual' to say the least but then I'm looking at it from a christian POV. If a christian man held your beliefs I would seriously question his faith and ask him to see a pastor/minister,etc. If that is not you, well then carry on.

[nopardons]

Since you have no idea, just how stupid you are, nor the fact that there isn't a single FREEPER who thinks that you're anything but many marbles short of a bag full. I really shouldn't be surprised, at all, that you, who have NEVER seen, not once, the inside of Johnson's dictionary, to argue with me, who owns a first edition set, about what's inside either volume. LOL

As I said before, there are MANY common words, which are NOT to be found in the 1755 editions; "virgin" being but one of them.

Both Samuel Johnson and his contemporaries, were familiar with and used many words, which don't appear in Johnson's dictionary; many of which, I doubt that you've ever used or know.

You're blind, just blind. You claimed that dictionaries, post the sexual revolution changed because of it and the feminazis. I proved you wrong...not just wrong, but damned dead wrong!

But because you are incapable of any reasonable and logical refutation, all you do is post utter drivel. Does that make you feel better about your abject shortcomings, pet? :-)

Tsk, tsk, tsk...I skimmed through some words prior to and those who would have appeared AFTER the word "virgin", had it appeared in Johnson's double volume set. You have a problem with that, do you? LOL

You'll probably just keep right on digging that hole, but all that's going to do, is expose you to more ridicule and contempt.