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APPENDIX
Example
Nevertheless in reprehension I will use them respectively, by
reason of reverence, which is due to Antiquity. Besides this,
nothing can be both invented and perfected at once. Read,
Workes.
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Nominalization
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Definition
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Example
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Repugning
Repugn (v)
OED Repugning n. Now rare. Opposition, resistance; an instance
of this.
1395 (OED)
For nature repugnynge, all thynges are frustrat. But yf that
nature be inclyned vnto the best thynges, the knoweledge of the
arte wyll easely folowe, whyche it behoueth to get throughe
prudence, so that from the chyldehoode he be well trayned vppe,
(...). Gale, Institution.
2 (one of them a verbal gerund)
Nominalization Residence
Base
< Anglo-Norman and Middle French residence, (...) < classical
Latin resident–, residēns, present participle of residēre (to reside)
+ –ia (–ia)
Definition The fact of residing or being resident; also in extended use.
Earliest attestation c1400 (OED)
Example
(...) I rather suspect the quite contrary, that it was at first certain
great Trees of Fir or Pine, which by some Earthquake, or other
casualty, came to be buried under the Earth, and was there, after
a long time’s residence according to the several natures of the
encompassing adjacent parts either rotted and turn’d into a kind
of Clay, petrify’d and turn’d into a kind of Stone, or else had its
pores fill’d with certain Mineral juices, (...). Hooke,
Micrographia.
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Resistance
< Anglo-Norman and Middle French resistance (...) < classical
Latin resistent–, resistēns, present participle of resistere (to
resist) + –ia (–ia)
OED Resistance n. 1. a. The action of resisting, opposing, or
withstanding someone or something; an instance of this.
Sometimes with to, †of.
1417 (OED)
(...) for the blood is so confin'd within its own vessels, and its
parts so crowded one upon another, [^p.20^] that there is not a
sufficient secretion of its fine and subtle parts, but ev'n by this
great quantity the distractile blood-pipes being very much
distended, compress the nerves over all the body, and hinder the
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