New-Minted Coins
Words of which William Shakespeare was the only recorded user, at some point, according to the Oxford English Dictionary:
- bepray
- bragless
- compulsative
- conceptious
- confineless
- continuantly
- correctioner
- disliken
- exceptless
- exsufflicate
- foxship
- insultment
- oathable
- offendress
- omittance
- overgreen
- overstink
- questant
- razorable
- successantly
- thoughten
- uprighteously
- wenchless
In Inventing English, Stanford literary historian Seth Lerer credits him with inventing nearly 6,000 new words.
