What was revolutionary about samuel johnson’s dictionary of the english language? it was the first dictionary to be compiled by a group of critics, poets, essayists, and biographers. it was the first dictionary to include definitions of difficult or technical words. it was the first english dictionary to use quotations from literature to illustrate word usage and development.

It was the first English dictionary to use quotations from literature to illustrate word usage and development.

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The correct answer is "It was the first English dictionary to use quotations from literature to illustrate word usage and development."

"A Dictionary of the English Language" was written by Samuel Johnson and published on the year 1755 considered one of the most influential dictionaries in the history of the English language.

As an author he was very innovative because it was the first time iterary quotation was used to illustrate the meanings of his words. Among the most frequently cited authors included Shakespeare, Dryden and Milton.

chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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