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SUBSTANTIVES — COMPOSITION
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The two last instances are from the Browning-parody
in the Heptalogia>. — As may be easily seen, most cases
are colour-adjectives. Red-gold may be an inversion of the
existing form gold-red.
4. Compositions with other word-classes are seldom
formed by adjectives. Over, which approaches the class of
prefixes, forms several combinations — over-swift (IV, 263),
oversuhtle, overdaring (IV, 348) — that all occur in dictionaries.
The following formation, on the other hand, is new:
IV, 322, I would that with feet
Unsandalled, unshod,
Overbold, overfleet,
I had swum not or trod . . .
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