pass-word

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English

Noun

pass-word (plural pass-words)

  1. Archaic spelling of password.
    • 1831, L E L[andon], chapter IV, in Romance and Reality. , volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, , →OCLC, page 87:
      ...—the conviction that she had not a creature on whom she could rely—for, besides Pedro's natural stupidity, he was ignorant of the Italian language; and to trust him with the pass-word taught by her father, might risk the safety of many,—...