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Earliest attestation
Example
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c1380 (OED)
(...) and by counting the degrees vppon the Meridian, contained
betwixt the degree of the sun and the Equinoctiall, you shall know
what declination the Sun hath that day, (...). Blundevile,
Cosmographie.
1 (verbal gerund)
Nominalization Coupling
Base
Couple (v)
Definition OED Coupling n. 1. Joining in couples, pairing; linking.
Earliest attestation c1340 (OED)
Example
Which producing I vnderstand not a discouerie only, as by
withdrawing availe, to shew that which lay behind it, but a
generation and coupling of matter with the forme: which forme it
bringeth not with it, but receaueth it as it were an impression
from the part. Bright, Melancholy.
Tokens 1
Nominalization Cracking
Base
Crack (v)
Definition OED Cracking n. 1. The emission of a sharp sound as in the act
of breaking or bursting, or the noise so emitted.
Earliest attestation c1290 (OED)
Example
The remaining particles likewise of the Wood among the stony
particles, may keep them from cracking and flying when put into
fire, as they are very apt to do in a Flint. Hooke, Life.
Tokens 1
Nominalization Creation
Base
< Anglo-Norman creation, (...) < creāt–, past participial stem of
creāre (to create) + –iō (–ation)
Definition OED Creation n. 2. a. The action or process of bringing
something into existence from nothing by divine or natural
agency; the fact of being so created.
Earliest attestation a1393 (OED)
Example
I say, secondly y=t= no members spermatike after y=e= losse of
their substaunce may not regenerate bicause that their matter is
attribuate to them at the very beginning of their creation, and
after that neuer engender agayne. Chauliac, Qvydos.
Tokens 4
Nominalization
Base
Definition
Earliest attestation
Crossing
Cross (v)
OED Crossing n. 3. a. The action of passing across; intersecting;
traversing; passage across the sea, a river, etc.
1575 (OED)
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