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APPENDIX
APPENDIX: ACTION NOMINALIZATIONS ATTESTED IN THE CORPORA
Nominalization Abiding
Base
Abide (v)
Definition OED Abiding n. 5. Patience; endurance, forbearance; submission.
Also with of.
Earliest attestation c1384 (OED)
Example
Laste foloweth the shorte abidinge, a certeine Token of the
disease to be in the spirites, as wel may be proved by the
Ephemere that Galene writethe of, (...). Caius, Sweatyng.
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Nominalization Abolition
Base
< Middle French, French abolition (...) < abolit–, past participial
stem of abolēre (to abolish) + –iō (–ation)
Definition OED Abolition n. 1. a. The action or process of abolishing
something; the fact of being abolished or done away with;
suppression, destruction, annihilation; an instance of this.
Earliest attestation 1529 (OED)
Example
As for the Abolition of the Magnetical vertue in a body endow’d
with it, it may be made without destroying the Substantial or the
Essential Form of the body, (...). Boyle, Magnetism.
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Nominalization Abscession
Base
< classical Latin abscēssiōn–, (...) < abscēss–, past participial
stem of abscēdere (to abscede) + –iō (–ation)
Definition OED Abscession n. 2. Med. Originally: †an abscess (obs.). In
later use (Veterinary Med.): abscess formation (cf. abscessation
n. ‘The condition of having abscesses; the development of
abscesses’)
Earliest attestation 1583 (OED)
Example
(...) and strew for this powder vpon your Pledgets, for the cure of
the outward Abscession, which likewise troubled him greatly,
(...). Clowes, Artificiall.
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Nominalization
Base
Definition
Earliest attestation
Absorbing
Absorb (v)
The assimilation of an entity to make it a part of a larger one.
OED Absorb v. 2. trans. To include or incorporate (a thing) so
that it loses its separate existence; to assimilate; (now) esp. take
control of (a smaller or less powerful entity) and make it a part of
a larger one. Chiefly with into, †of, in. Freq. in pass.
1666 (EMEMT)
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