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APPENDIX<br />

Nominalization Dropping<br />

Base<br />

Drop (v)<br />

Definition OED Dropping n. 2. The action of falling or descending<br />

vertically; also, of letting anything fall.<br />

Earliest attestation c1315 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

For somtimes it taketh course to the eyes, and thereof commeth a<br />

dropping and inflammation of the eyes, and a dimnesse and<br />

losse of sight; somtimes it taketh course by the nose, and is called<br />

the pose; (...). Harvey, Morbus.<br />

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Nominalization Drowning<br />

Base<br />

Drown (v)<br />

Definition OED Drowning n. The action of the verb drown, in its various<br />

senses.<br />

Earliest attestation 1539 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

THe common chink, through which errors and erroneous<br />

opinions do and have slipt into the Scholastique republique, to<br />

the endangering and enfoncing (drowning) of truth, is the too<br />

frequent misapprehension of the name of a thing, which being<br />

understood in one sense by me, and in another by you, must<br />

necessarily occasion us to discrepate (disagree) in the thing it<br />

self; (...). Harvey, Morbus.<br />

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Drying<br />

Dry (v)<br />

OED Drying n. The action of the verb dry; abstraction of<br />

moisture; desiccation. Also with adv., as drying-up.<br />

1398 (OED)<br />

This cholerick humor as the former is either naturall or<br />

unnaturall: the naturall is an humor in quality hot and dry, but<br />

not actually dry, for that in touching it is felt to be moist, but<br />

potentially, for that it hath the power of drying, and in substance<br />

thin, in colour yellow, and in taste bitter. Holland, Gutta.<br />

8 (one of them a verbal gerund)<br />

Duration<br />

< obsolete French duration, < late Latin dūrātiōn-em, n. of action<br />

< dūrāre (to harden, to endure)<br />

OED Duration n. 1. a. Lasting, continuance in time; the<br />

continuance or length of time; the time during which a thing,<br />

action, or state continues.<br />

c1384 (OED)<br />

(...) or otherwise they might have Spun the thred of their lives<br />

much longer, their principles of life being created in them to<br />

extend to an Eval duration (lasting without end.) Harvey,<br />

334

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