https://www.etymonline.com/word/inflation#etymonline_v_6450 >Monetary sense of "enlargement of prices" (originally by an increase in the amount of money in circulation) first recorded 1838 in American English.
Even the oldest wikipedia entry has this: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Inflation&oldid=2... >In some contexts the word "inflation" is used to mean an increase in the money supply, which is sometimes seen as the cause of price increases. Some economists (of the Austrian school) still prefer this meaning of the term, rather than to mean the price increases themselves. Thus, for example, some observers of the 1920s in the United States refer to "inflation" even though prices of goods were not increasing at the time. Below, the word "inflation" will be used to refer to a general increase in prices unless otherwise specified.
To me inflation means this. What should I call it because nowadays inflation simply means prince increase. What's the term for the "old inflation"? I want a word for it and apparently I can't use inflation anymore because its meaning has changed. Debasement? Can you use that when the central bank expands the money supply and causes the value of currency to decline? Because you can't call that inflation anymore as language has apparently evolved.