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1 (verbal gerund)
Nominalization Shutting
Base
Shut (v)
Definition OED Shutting n. 1. a. In trans. senses of the verb; closing,
fastening up, drawing together, etc.
Earliest attestation ?a1366 (OED)
Example
And Haly Abbas sayth, there be .xij. Muscles that moue the
nether Iawe, some of them in opening, and other some in closing
or shutting, passing vnder the bones of y=e= temples, (...).
Vicary, Anatomie.
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Nominalization Sinking
Base
Sink (v)
Definition OED Sinking n. 1. The action of the vb. in intransitive senses:
b. In various fig. or transf. uses. Also with in.
Earliest attestation c1440 (OED)
Example
yet they, for the most part, can never bear so large a bleeding,
even as those fat people we just now spoke of, and very seldom
can endure the loss of ten or twelve ounces of blood without a
sinking in their heart (as they [^p.16^] call it) dimness of sight,
or as it is expressively called by the French, une Defaillance des
esprits; (...). Cockburn, Continuation.
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Nominalization Sitting
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Sit (v)
Definition OED Sitting n. 1. a. The action of sit, in various senses; the fact
of being seated; an instance of this.
Earliest attestation ?c1225 (?c1200) (OED)
Example
First saith he choose some light place, & let the Patient lye on his
bed, for in sitting he will soone sound: therfore binde his legges
together, and after binde them to the Bedside, and let one holde
his head fast, (...). Clowes, Artificiall.
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Definition
Earliest attestation
Example
Situation
< French situation (...), or < medieval Latin situātio, n. of action
< situāre, < Latin situs (site)
OED Situation n. †5. a. The action of situating. Obs.
1589 (OED)
And as the Instrument doth suffer diseases of number, of
magnitude, of situation and conformation, (I say) conformation
in the figure, Meatus, and Asperitie, for it is a disease in
magnitude, as often as the eyes are moregreat, and more
standing forth then they should, for the lesser eyes are best,
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