Sense file
How the sense moved
The archive follows the dated record first, then reads the social or rhetorical pressure that hardened, softened, narrowed, or reversed the word.
Older meaning
Root-level, fundamental, or going to the source.
Modern meaning
Extreme, revolutionary, or far outside the mainstream.
Research lens
The word is most revealing when the older root logic and the newer extremity label are read together rather than separately.
Meaning trail
Root
of the root
The word begins with origin and foundation.
Bridge
fundamental or thoroughgoing
Depth becomes intensity.
Now
politically extreme or transformative
Modern use often turns root-thinking into ideological edge-marking.