Brewer's: Starvation Dundas

Henry Dundas, first Lord Melville, who was the first to introduce the word starvation into the language, on an American debate: in 1775. (Anglo-Saxon, steorfan, to perish of hunger; German, sterben; Dutch, sterven.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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