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Nominalization Attrition
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< Latin attrītiōn-em, n. of action < attrīt– and –ation
Definition OED Attrition n. 1. The action or process of rubbing one thing
against another; mutual friction.
Earliest attestation 1601 (OED)
Example
Thus we see, that most Resinous Gums, that draw light bodies, do
also, bieng moderately solicited by heat, whether this be excited
by the fire, or by Attrition or Contusion emit steams. Boyle,
Magnetism.
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Augmenting
Augment (v)
OED Augmenting n. Augmentation, increase. (Now gerundial.)
1537 (OED)
(...) Potable Gold (aurum potabile, or Gold Chymically reduced
to a liquor, or a thin oyle, thereby being render’d potable, or fit
to be dranck) contains a vertue of recruiting or augmenting
Natures Essentials; (...). Harvey, Morbus.
3 (one of them a verbal gerund)
Avoiding
Avoid (v)
OED Avoiding n. The action of emptying or getting rid of (obs.),
of making void or invalid, of shunning or keeping aloof from;
avoidance.
a1513 (OED)
With the same you maye also make you a swete house in castynge
it abrode therin, if firste by auoidynge the russhes and duste you
make the house clene. Caius, Sweatyng.
6 (3 of them verbal gerunds)
Nominalization Baking
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Bake (v)
Definition OED Baking n. 1. The action of the verb bake; the process of
preparing bread; the hardening or ‘firing’ of earthenware.
Earliest attestation 1398 (OED)
Example
I therefore go furth with my diete, wherin my counseill is, that the
meates be helthfull, and holsomly kylled, swetly saued, and wel
prepared in rostyng, sethyng, baking, & so furth. Caius,
Sweatyng.
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