William Shakespeare used the word “dotage” to capture reduced mental ability (as in being blindly in love) rather than as a quaint term for old age, “successes” were really outcomes—one could talk of a “bad success”—and it turns out, the word “bastard” back then most often referred to a flower that was genetically hybrid.
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Source: Phys.org