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APPENDIX
Nominalization Choosing
Base
Choose (v)
Definition OED Choosing n. The action of choose in various senses;
selection, adoption, picking out, electing, etc.
Earliest attestation c1200 (OED)
Example
And yf the Mason Carpenter and Smythe, be so curious and
dyligent, in knowyng, chosyng, and consyderynge of stones,
tymber, and yron, whyche be thynges of no great valour or
estimation: (...). Gale, Institution.
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Nominalization Circulation
Base < French circulation or Latin circulātiōn-em, noun of action <
circulāre (to circulate)
Definition OED Circulation n. The action of circulating.
Earliest attestation 1535 (OED)
Example
(...) I can hardly forbear running out into a long digression
concerning some noble Theorems about the great and different
effects of bleeding, that depend entirely upon the infinitely useful
demonstration of the circulation of the Blood, that crowd into my
thoughts; (...). Cockburn, Continuation.
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Nominalization Circumspection
Base
< Old French circumspection (...) < circumspicĕre
Definition OED Circumspection n. 1. The scanning of surrounding objects
or circumstances, careful or wary looking about one; the faculty
of doing this.
Earliest attestation 1387 (OED)
Example
I graunt it tollerable and very conuenient, to vse in this Cure the
due applycation of Potential Cauteries, such as whose propertye
and seruice is to corrode the flesh & the skin, and may with very
good circumspection very safely be attempted, (...). Clowes,
Artificiall.
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Nominalization Circumvolution
Base
n. of action, < Latin circumvolvĕre, cirumvolūt– (to roll round)
Definition OED Circumvolution n. 1. a. Rolling, whirling, or turning round
an axis or centre; revolution, rotation, gyration.
Earliest attestation 1447 (OED)
Example
Let the length be such as the Member affected and the multitude
of circumvolutions [/25./] require; longer in Winter than in
Summer. Wiseman, Wounds.
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