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VOCABULARY
or it may be a verb [— not to be trod, not allowed to
be visited].
With these formations we may compare fathomless
unfathomable (II, 95), and measureless — immeasurable
(II, 121), both well-known instances of this class.
Of course, there are other suffixes, too, that are used
in formations of this kind. We find the suffix -ard used
in the obsolete blinkard,
1, 18, No blinkard heathen stumbling for scant light . . .
and we find the suffix -ible used to form a new
adjective from the verb engross:
V, 390, One never should think good impossible.
Eh? say I’d hide this Jew’s oil’s cruse
His shop might hold bright gold, engrossible
By spy . . .
This occurs in a parody of Browning in the <
Hepta-logia». There also we find two new formations in -ic, of
which one is formed from a verbal stem.
V, 397, To the skirts of contemplation, cramped with nympho-
leptic weight . . .
397, And earth’s soul yawns disembowelled of her
pancreatic organs . ..
Finally, the Romanic -ent is not unfrequently used
with its full meaning of a participle ending, as in
III, 337, . . . the beam refrangent from the wave
VI, 11, Softlier here the flower-soft feet of refluent seasons
glide.
2. Suffixes. There is, in Swinburne’s language, a
pervading tendency to restore to the suffixes of adjective
formations a fullness of meaning that is not seldom to be
found in poetry but rarely in prose. All suffixes show this
tendency more or less: more particularly, however, does it
appear in the case of -ful and -less. Though most of the
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