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Example
Now it is most probable, I may say demonstrative, that what
strange event did first minister occasion to invent an Art, that
that Art was first enquired for & found out; Such was the
wounding and killing of Abel, by his brother Cain, by reason of
emulation. Read, Workes.
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Nominalization Encouragement
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< French encouragement
Definition OED Encouragement n. The action or process of encouraging,
the fact of being encouraged (see senses of the vb.); concr. a fact
or circumstance which serves to encourage.
Earliest attestation 1550 (OED)
Example
Upon which encouragement we suspended it, being first well
chafed, in a Glass Received that was not great, just over a light
Body; and making haste with our Air-Pump to exhaust the Glass,
when the Air was withdrawn, we did bya Contrivance let down
the suspended Amber till it came very near the Straw or Feather,
(...). Boyle, Magnetism.
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Nominalization Encroaching
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Encroach (v)
Definition OED Encroaching n. Obs. The action of encroach.
Earliest attestation 1539 (OED)
Example
(...) we are all puzzled so much about, yet never otherwise to be
known; and I hope I have explained them too as fully, as my time
and subject, and my resolution to avoid incroaching too far upon
the true doctrine of Pulses and Phlebotomy will allow: and
therefore I shall proceed to the Cure of our sicknesses this year,
which is the main design of this work. Cockburn, Continuation.
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Nominalization Ending
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End (v)
Definition OED Ending n. 1. The action of the verb end: termination,
conclusion, completion; †death, etc.
Earliest attestation c1000 (OED)
Example
In the mene space, know that this disease (because it most did
stand in sweating from the beginning vntil the endyng) was
called here, the Sweating sickenesse: and because it firste
beganne in Englande, it was named in other countries, [^f.9v^]
the englishe sweat. Caius, Sweatyng.
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Nominalization
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Endangering
Endanger (v)
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