Usage History of 'cryptic'

The following chart shows how frequently 'cryptic' appeared in printed materials over time. For example, the word 'cryptic' occurred 4 times in books in 1708 and 43,683 times in 2008. From 1708 to 2008, the word 'cryptic' was used a total of 1,078,318 times in books scanned by Google. See Reference: Google Ngram project.

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