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SUBSTANTIVES — COMPOSITION 55
(b). In the chapter on Swinburne’s Vocabulary, we
shall find that there is a pervading tendency to restore to
adjective suffixes a fullness of meaning which is now quite
unknown. From this point of view these suffixes might
be treated here as showing a distinct change of meaning;
but in order not to separate new formations from their
natural connection I have placed all these things in the
chapter named above. I might, however, give a few
instances to show this tendency:
I, 58, ... eyes insatiable of amorous hours . . .
294, Comes back to me hopeless to kiss yon . . .
II, 18, . . . woundless of the worm that stings
IV, 97, Yet am 1 not rebukable by thee . . .
10S, ... the royal rancour toward thy foes
Retributive of ruin . . .
Finally, while talking of adjective attributes, I will cite
a curious case of coupling together:
II, 234, . . . beyond the bright and morning star . . .
§ 3. Verbs.
Verbs afford much of interest from our present point
of view.
(a). First, there are cases of intransitive verbs being
’heightened’ to a transitive sense.
II, 90, Whose breath blew palaces bare,
Whose eyes shone tyrannies dead . . .
259, From thee the lady land that queens the earth
Gat as she gave new birth . . .
VI, 417, When spring laughs winter down to deathward . . .
The first and last instances are, of course very simple.
Still, shine as a trans, vb. is only given = to cause to shine;
and laugh, in the same way, is only given by N. E. D.
with a cognate object (laugh a laughter), or in expressions
like laugh to scorn. Queen, tr., in chess: to make a queen
of a pawn; in apiculture: to supply with a queen. Some
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