"Adrian"
The Chronicles of Clovis (1911)
“I will not talk of non-intervention, for it is not an English word.”
When an MP sought to correct Palmerston when he said "non-interference" instead of "non-intervention" in the House of Commons http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1832/aug/02/germany-protocol-of-the-diet (2 August 1832)
1830s
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