JF Ptak Science Books  Quick Post   [Part of the series on Naming Things.]

While looking for something else in the Oxford English Dictionary I looked up the instances of the works of “George Orwell” being used as illustrative/descriptive examples for a word and found 484 usages and 9 first-time-use references. That’s a lot for a modern writer in the OED–Shakespeare on the other hand has 15,986 listings and 1,591 first uses, the orders of magnitude fully expected; coming to another massive wordsmith in Gibbon,  we see the numbers skewed deeply down to 1,741 and 32. Anyway, Orwell/Blair shows well in comparison to The Rise and Fall, which to me is impressive.  Here are his 9:

Doublethink: The mental capacity to accept as equally valid two entirely contrary opinions or beliefs.

• 1949   ‘G. Orwell’ Nineteen Eighty-four i. iii. 37.   His mind slid away into the labyrinthine world of doublethink. To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy.