Talk:autexousious

RFV discussion: November 2022–March 2023
In English this seems to be a 17th-century nonce word used by. I removed two citations that are just mentioning Greek terms (2nd and 4th at this revision). This is the case for most of the results on Google Books. Of the remaining two quotations at the entry, one is Cudworth and the second is quoting Cudworth, though it hasn't been formatted as such. Cudworth was apparently enough for it to make the 1st edition OED, though, and they've kept it with him as the only citation.

Beyond that there's also this case (first para, 3–4 lines from bottom), where it doesn't seem to be treated as an English word, and this sentence apparently by a non-native speaker who's gotten lost in a thesaurus: "These upheavals occurred almost homoplasiously with European states agitating to be autexousious." Is there anything more convincing out there? —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 02:03, 11 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Added a quotation from a secondary school student publication. Despite being published since 2005, it doesn't have a WorldCat entry, so I'm not sure whether to regard it as durably archived. In any event, I've backed up the PDF of the issue to the Wayback Machine. 98.170.164.88 01:09, 12 November 2022 (UTC)


 * If this does count there'd need to be another one to call this cited I think since the appearance in the second quote is just a blockquote from the Cudworth book. Then again, it may be that 400 years and an OED entry that attracts the sufficiently pompous is enough to guarantee a nonce word an entry. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 02:44, 12 November 2022 (UTC)

✅ with a recently published book. Even though the guy is clearly a hack ("homoplasiously"? really?) Ioaxxere (talk) 01:33, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

RFV Passed. Ioaxxere (talk) 04:43, 3 March 2023 (UTC)