A word comes into the vocabulary when it is needed to represent a certain object or to express a certain concept. ..... When we read the literature of the past, we think of some, at least, of its words in not quite the same way as the writer thought of them; in the process of time they have taken on new 'overstones,' new shades of meaning.
――福岡女子大学 前期日程/文学部(2月25日実施)――2004年