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APPENDIX<br />

Nominalization Restraining<br />

Base<br />

Restrain (v)<br />

Definition OED Restraining n. The action of restrain (in various senses); an<br />

instance of this.<br />

Earliest attestation c1390 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

You are then, after you have made a turn upon the Wound with<br />

both ends of the Rowler, to go up with the one, and down with the<br />

other, and take so many turns about the Part as may be requisite<br />

for the restraining the Flux of bloud, or, according to the<br />

Season of the year, to defend it from cold, and yet not keep the<br />

Wound too hot, for that may weaken the Part. Wiseman, Wounds.<br />

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Retaining<br />

Retain (v)<br />

OED Retaining n. The action of retain (in various senses);<br />

retention; an instance of this. Cf. Retention n. 1. a., in same sense.<br />

c1460 (OED)<br />

The third is, in retaining the Lips so brought together, that they<br />

may by Consolidation be restored to their former figure.<br />

Wiseman, Wounds.<br />

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

Nominalization Retention<br />

Base<br />

< Anglo-Norman retencioun, (...) < retent–, past participial stem<br />

of retinēre (to retain) + –iō (–ation)<br />

Definition OED Retention n. 1. a. The fact or action of retaining within the<br />

body a substance (esp. urine or, in early use, menstrual blood)<br />

which would normally be eliminated; failure to eliminate a<br />

substance from the body or an organ; an instance of this. Cf. also<br />

Retaining n., in same sense.<br />

Earliest attestation a1400 (OED)<br />

Example<br />

It hath the nature of Feuerfue in all things, and it is good for<br />

women to sit in the decoction thereof to prouoke sweate, and to<br />

drawe downe the termes, and auoide the paine that commeth by<br />

retention of them. Langham, Garden.<br />

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Retraction<br />

< classical Latin retractiōn-, (...) < retract–, past participial stem<br />

of retrahere (to retract) + –iō (–ation)<br />

OED Retraction n. 3. b. gen. The action of drawing or pulling<br />

something back or in; the fact or condition of being drawn in or<br />

contracted; power to pull something back.<br />

1528 (OED)<br />

And according to this Hypothesis, the Amber, or other Electrick,<br />

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