Origin and history of Ezra

Used earlier (1909) by Ezra Pound in the sense "literary character representing voice of the author."...

that sought clarity of expression through use of precise visual images, "hard light, clear edges" [Pound], coined 1912 by Ezra...

Vorticism as a movement in British arts and literature is attested from 1914, coined by Ezra Pound....

[Ezra Pound, "ABC of Economics," 1933]...

meaning based on context and prior usage, a term introduced, along with phanopoeia (visual image) and melopoeia (sound), by Ezra...

1934, in Ezra Pound: "periplum, not as land looks on a map / but as sea board seen by men sailing" [Canto LIX], or as Hugh...

[Ezra Pound, from “Henry James,” Little Review, August 1918]...

"state or character of being perspicacious; keenness of sight, clearness of understanding," 1540s, from French perspicacité (15c.) and directly from Late Latin perspicacitas "sharp-sightedness, discernment," from Latin perspicax "sharp-sighted, having the power of seeing through,

c. 1400, "to loathe, regard with repugnance, dislike intensely," literally "to shrink back with horror or dread," from Latin abhorrere "shrink back from, have an aversion for, shudder at," from ab "off, away from" (see ab-) + horrere "tremble at, shudder," literally "to bristle,

1853, "unselfishness, devotion to the welfare of others, the opposite of egoism," from French altruisme, coined or popularized 1830 by French philosopher Auguste Comte, with -ism + autrui (Old French altrui) "of or to others," from Latin alteri, dative of alter "other" (see alter