Ah, so the old battle between descriptive and prescriptive rages on. Like you, I side with the prescriptive camp—until a battle is lost. For example, I know that "fruition" has nothing to do with fruit or ripe produce or projects completed, as the word comes from the Latin verb
frui, meaning "to enjoy." Yet, I recently heard the British prime minister use the word in the sense of actualization or fulfilment. Thus, I surrender this word. In fact, so have many dictionaries, as the first definition on the web is "the point at which a plan or project is realized.." Webster's, surprisingly enough for a mainly descriptive dictionary, still battles on, refusing to submit to popular usage, hold tight to the "true" meaning of the word:
pleasurable use or possession : enjoyment; the state of bearing fruit; realization… See the full definition
www.merriam-webster.com
By the way, dictionaries, like most other things once authoritative, are going woke—and, thus, becoming worthless. The cutting-edge definition of the word "lesbian" is "non-men attracted to non-men." Thus, racoons and spiders are lesbians. What!? You do not believe so? Just look in a new dictionary. In the absence of dictionaries, by your own admission, no one would have the ability to communicate. Everyone knows that prior to the Dr. Johnson's efforts, no one could speak or write.
Today, the word "cuckold" is used primarily in a political sense, such as in "cuck-servative." Probably, most of the population thinks of the word not as a noun, but as a verb, such as in "She cuckold her husband during her last business trip to Paris." But for those knowledgeable of sexual kink, the word is so laden with its sissy, sniveling connotation that it is intentionally isomorphic with the definition provided by the Urban Dictionary:
A husband or long term boyfriend who either likes to watch his wife with other men or is forced to watch. Often there are different levels of humiliation involved such as chastity, financial,
sissification, etc. Terms surrounding cuckold include
cuckolded,
hotwife, bull, lover, etc.