Essay:Best New Conservative Words

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Each year the English language develops about a thousand new words. Over the course of a century, that amounts to 100,000 new words. Since the [[King James Version]] of the [[Bible]] was published in 1611, perhaps a half a million new English words have been developed.

A small percentage of those new words are tremendously powerful. Here are some examples developed since the King James Version was published:

{| class="wikitable"
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!New Term
!Origin date
!Comments
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|[[accountability]]
|1794
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|[[Affirmative Action|affirmative action]]
|1965
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|American dream
|1911 (OED)<ref>OED refers to the Oxford English Dictionary. The Merriam-Webster dictionary gives a date of 1931.</ref>
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|-
|bailout
|1951
|The verbal form ''to bail out'' (in a figurative sense, which is meant here) dates from the 1580s. The literal sense is somewhat earlier. <ref>OED, ''bail, v1''</ref>
|-
|[[bureaucracy]]
|1818
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|competitive
|1829
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|[[conservative]]
|1831
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|[[deregulation]]
|1963
|Reagan won in 1980 by campaigning on this.
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|[[deterrence]]
|1861
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|dumb down
|1933
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|[[efficiency]]
|1633
|Ultimately from the Latin ''efficientem'', meaning ''"working out, or accomplishing"''<ref>[http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=efficient Online Etymological Dictionary]</ref>
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|[[elitism]]
|1950
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|[[entitlement]]
|1944
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|[[free enterprise]]
|1820
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|go-getter
|1921
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|Good Samaritan
|1640
|how genuine [[charity]] is the best approach;
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|[[grade inflation]]
|1975
|the tendency by Liberal educationalists and public schools to increase marks, irrespective of merit or actual achievement.
|-
|[[grassroots]]
|1901
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|[[homeschool]]
|1980<ref>The OED assigns a date of origin of 1850 to "homeschool".</ref>
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|-
|[[Essay:Liberal hysteria|hysteria]]
|1801
|From the Latin ''hystericus'', from Greek ''hystera '' meaning ''"womb"''<ref>[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hysteria Meriam Webster Dictionary]</ref> (an old notion that hysteria was caused by the [[womb]]).
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|[[meritocracy]]
|1958
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|me-too
|1881
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|[[opportunity cost]]
|1911
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|[[phonics]]
|1684
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|[[politically correct]]
|1983
|This term originated at the [[liberal]] [[University of Madison-Wisconsin]] to enforce liberal orthodoxy, but immediately flipped in usage to become a term of mockery of liberals.<ref>But see 1793 J. WILSON in U.S. Rep. (U.S. Supreme Court) 2 (1798) 462 Sentiments and expressions of this inaccurate kind prevail in our..language... ‘The United States’, instead of the ‘People of the United States’, is the toast given. This is not *politically correct</ref>
|-
|potential
|1817<ref>Usage here refers to "promise", not "possibility".</ref>
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|privatize
|1940
|to return a business or enterprise from state to private control; to de-nationalize.
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|productive
|1612
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|[[pro-life]]
|1960
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|property right
|1853
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|[[responsibility]]
|1737
|1787 HAMILTON Federalist No. 63 II. 193 Responsibility in order to be reasonable must be limited to objects within the power of the responsible party.
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|[[self-defense]]
|1651
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|[[Discipline|self-discipline]]
|1838
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|self-indulgence
|1753
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|self-reliant
|1848
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|victimization
|1840
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|wannabee
|1981
|the second most recent entry; a word that criticizes liberal [[status worship]]
|-
|}

== Rate of Generation of Conservative Terms ==

The rate of generation of conservative terms is increasing:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Century
!# New Conservative Terms
|-
|1600s
|5
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|1700s
|3
|-
|1800s
|12
|-
|1900s
|16
|-
|}

== Conservative Words Not Yet Recognized by the Dictionary ==

A thousand new words are developed in English each year. Here is a growing list of conservative concepts, each of which is not yet defined by a single word or two.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Not Yet Recognized Terms
!Suggestions
!Comments
|-
|Unaffected by, or impervious to, the media
|mediaproof
|cf. bulletproof. ''Once John became aware of the extent of [[liberal deceit]], he set about mediaproofing his mind''.
|-
|easily amused by [[deceit]]
|dolophile
|from Greek/Latin root ''dolo-'' meaning guile, deceit, deception [http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/664]
|-
|the opposite of [[materialism]]
|spiritualism and idealism have been its philosophical opposites, historically
|[[dualism]] has been suggested, but it is not the ''opposite'' of [[materialism]]; "spiritualism" is not a common term and is the "opposite" of materialism
|-
|runaway jury
|
|The term has existed for decades, but Merriam-Webster has not recognized it yet.
|-
|[[Second generation atheist|second-generation atheist]]
|cradle atheist
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|denial that [[Hell]] exists
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|[[deliberate ignorance]]
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|the term exists; the dictionary does not yet include it
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|proven wrong, a refusal to admit it
|[[Schlafly]]
|cf. mulish. This refusal is what promoted the [[Parable of the Good Samaritan]].
|-
|[[term limits]]
|
|can you believe this is not in the dictionary yet? Merriam-Webster omits it, but dictionary.com includes it with an origin date of 1861[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/term+limit]
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|[[Illegal Alien|illegal alien]]
|
|widely used in court decisions and political discourse for years, Merriam-Webster still does not recognize it is as a term.
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|strict constructionism
|
|an important term for over 200 years to describe adherence to the text of the Constitution, Merriam-Webster still does not recognize it.
|}

== New liberal words ==

New liberal words often have deceptive, or nonsensical, meanings. Here are some new words created by liberals to combat [[conservatism]]:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
!New Term
!Origin date
!Comments
|-
|[[Atheism|atheist]]
|1571
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|"[[Big Bang theory|Big Bang]]"
|1948
|term invented by the leading [[British]] physicist Sir [[Fred Hoyle]] to ''mock'' this suggestion of how the universe was formed
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|[[carbon footprint]]
|1999<ref>http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/carbon%20footprint</ref>
|term indicates an individual human's effect on the environment by production of carbon dioxide
|-
|[[communism]]
|1840
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|compassion fatigue
|1968
|Liberals, driven by materialistic self-interest, are likely to suffer from this.
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|[[condescension]]
|1647
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|[[Dark Ages]]
|1730
|A term coined in the so-called [[enlightenment]] to disparage the period between the fall of the [[Roman Empire]] and c.1000, when the Christian faith, and its learning and culture, spread across Europe.
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|[[Détente|detente]]
|1970s
|A euphemism referring to pacifist policy re. the Soviet Union
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|distributive justice
|
|A term used to redefine socialist abridgment of rights as "just"
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|[[enlightenment]]
|1669
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|[[Environmentalist|environmentalism]]
|1922
|a mixture of [[pseudoscience]] and neo-[[paganism]] used to justify the imposition of [[socialist]]ic controls.
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|[[fundamentalism]]
|1922
|"a movement in 20th century Protestantism emphasizing the literally interpreted Bible as fundamental to Christian life and teaching"<ref>http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fundamentalism</ref> From a series of pamphlets called "The Fundamentals" which outlined the movement. Perjorative usage started when the liberal [[Harry Emerson Fosdick]] began using the term in a straw man attack against [[Conservative Christianity]].
|-
|[[feminism]]
|1895
|notionally, "the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes"; in reality, the attempt to destroy traditional family, societal and religious values by erasing or undermining natural gender differences.
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|[[gay rights]]
|1969
|The movement for civil rights for homosexuals
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|glass ceiling
|1984
|the notion that an invisible barrier prevents women and ethnic minorities from reaching high office; an excuse for [[feminist]]s and others to demand [[affirmative action]]
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|[[global warming]]
|1969
|The baseless [[environmentalist]] mantra that the earth's temperature is rising, and that human intervention is the cause.
|-
|[[homophobia]]
|1969
|used by Liberals to describe a failure to subscribe 100% to the [[homosexual agenda]].
|-
|[[humanism]]
|1832
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|[[imperialism]]
|1851
|a clever term later used by liberals to interfere with Christian missionaries and stopping anti-Christian tyranny
|-
|[[isolationism]]
|1922
|a pejorative term that is critical of American politicians putting America first in priorities
|-
|Keynesianism
|1946
|advocacy of 'tax and spend' policies as elaborated by the economist [[John Maynard Keynes]]; a [[euphemism]] for back-door [[Socialism]].
|-
|[[Living Constitution]]
|2000
|a continually evolving Constitution (first used by presidential candidate Al Gore, title of a 1936 book by Howard McBain)
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|[[People are animals|people are animals]]
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|[[politically correct]]
|1936
|According to some sources, the term originally comes from Chairman Mao
|-
|[[population control]]
|1968
|the issue of population dates back to Confucius. Liberals promoted the term after the book The Population Bomb by Paul R. Ehrlich
|-
|pro-choice
|1975
|a euphemism for insisting on taxpayer-funded [[abortion]]; people who claim to be pro-choice typically oppose ''informed'' choice, which makes the "choice" meaningless
|-
|progressivism
|1892
|the progressive movement was not entirely liberal; it was started by a Republican and shared some goals with conservatives, and still does
|-
|[[quote mining]]
|non-existent
|a term used by [[evolutionists]] without logical meaning
|-
|racism
|
|If you don't support Barack Obama, you are guilty of....
|-
|sexism
|1968
|That which is practiced by those who do not give total support to [[feminism]].
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|strict liability
|1869
|court-imposed liability even when there is no evidence of any fault by the defendant
|-
|undocumented immigrant
|2000
|a [[politically correct]] replacement for illegal alien.
|-
|unfair
|1700
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|union shop
|1904
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|unitarian
|1687
|
|-
|}

== Downgraded Conservative Terms ==

These conservative terms are less significant:

{| class="wikitable"
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|byzantine
|1794<ref>The usage here -- in sense of complex governmental rules -- probably developed later.</ref>
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|[[entropy]]
|1868
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|[[filibuster]]
|1851
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|media
|1923
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|[[milquetoast]]
|1933
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|normalcy
|1920
|related to the election of [[Warren G. Harding]] by the largest margin yet in history
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|[[RADAR|radar]]
|1940
|Acronym of "Radio Detection and Ranging"; inclusion here being challenged on talk page
|-
|}

== Sources ==

*[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ Merriam-Webster dictionary]

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