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I. Substantives.
a. Derivation.
1. There are some things of interest in the
suffix-derivation of substantives, but I can not find any favourite
suffix of the same kind as those set down by Dyboski
for the word-formation of Tennyson. The only possible
exception would be the suffix -ing. 1 therefore arrange
this survey in alphabetical order, beginning with
-age, which only presents the archaic use of
fraught-age - freightage.
IV, 137, ... with royal ware for fraughtage.
-ance; we find the old obsolete form to the
utterance, in
III, 147, And cursed of God most high to the utterance.
A new formation with this suffix occurs in:
III, 301, . . . his heart
Singing, bade heaven and wind and sea bear part
In one live song’s reiierance . . .
Though -er does not play the same role in
Swinburne as in Tennyson, his language still shows a tendency
to give it its full meaning of nomen agentis. Only
compound substantives, however, show any new creations:
still the following constructions of single -e/’-nouns point
in the same direction:
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