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APPENDIX<br />

Nominalization<br />

Base<br />

Definition<br />

Earliest attestation<br />

Example<br />

Tokens<br />

Nominalization<br />

Base<br />

Definition<br />

Earliest attestation<br />

Example<br />

Tokens<br />

Emitting<br />

Emit (v)<br />

OED Emitting n. The action of emit. Cf. also Emission n. 4. a., in<br />

same sense.<br />

1675-76 (PPCEME)<br />

For the Attrition having caus’d an intestine commotion in the<br />

parts of the Concrete, the heat or warmth that is thereby excited<br />

ought not to cease, as soon as ever the rubbing is over, but to<br />

continue capable of emitting Effluvia for some time afterwards,<br />

which will be longer or shorter according to the goodness of the<br />

Electric, (...). Boyle, Magnetism.<br />

2 (all of them verbal gerunds)<br />

Employing<br />

Employ (v)<br />

OED Employing n. a. The action of the verb employ. Cf. also<br />

Employment n. 1. a., in same sense.<br />

1607 (OED)<br />

And my particular Observations incline me to adde, that the<br />

effect may oftentimes be much promoted, by employing both<br />

these ways successively; as I thought I manifestly found when I<br />

first warm’d the Amber at the fire, and presently after chaf’d it a<br />

little upon a piece of cloth. Boyle, Magnetism.<br />

1 (verbal gerund)<br />

Nominalization Employment<br />

Base<br />

Employ (v)<br />

Definition OED Employment n. 1. a. The action or process of employing;<br />

the state of being employed. Also in phrase, †(man, etc.) of<br />

much, little, etc. employment . Cf. Employing n. 1. a., in same<br />

sense.<br />

Earliest attestation 1598 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

But on the contrary, it's ordinary for Smiths, Cooks, and others,<br />

whose imployment is conversant about the Fire, to incurre such<br />

an extreme dryness of their Lungs, that in the dissection of their<br />

Carcasses, they appear liker Spunges than moist Lungs; the like<br />

observation you'l read below touching the withered Lungs of one<br />

Pendarves. Harvey, Morbus.<br />

Tokens 1<br />

Nominalization<br />

Base<br />

Definition<br />

Earliest attestation<br />

Emulation<br />

< Latin æmulātiōn-em, n. of action < æmulā-ri.<br />

OED Emulation n. 1. The endeavour to equal or surpass others in<br />

any achievement or quality; also, the desire or ambition to equal<br />

or excel.<br />

1552 (OED)<br />

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