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ADJECTIVES— PREFIXES
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names. Pierian, Cytherean, etc, are frequently used,
sometimes even instead of a genitive, after classical models:
III, 57, Thin is the leaf, and chill the wintry smell,
And chill the solemn earth, a fatal mother,
With sadder than the Niobcan womb . . .
New formations of this type occur in
II, 179, ... the Pcgasean spring; and in
257, The herdsman of the Gadarean swine,
where Swinburne has not contented himself with the
existing form Gadarene.
B. Prefixes.
Only the negative prefixes play any role in Swinburne:
the most important of these are in- and un-; dis- occurs
in the archaic form dispiteous,
I, 30, The most dispiteous out of all the gods.
in- is a common prefix, but seldom gives any new
forms. It occurs in indissolute (II, 24), inextirpable (II, 24),
irrevocable (III, 56), insubmissive (III, 15), which form N. E. D.
quotes from Swinburne, and in several other formations.
A new one is found in:
V, 69, Misery, beyond all men’s most miserable,
Absolute, whole, defiant of defence,
Inevitable, inexplacable, intense . . .
where the accumulation of in-’s may have been the
motive to the creation of the word.
Another new formation is found in the same
volume, page 255:
Which flower of life may swell the sweeter
To love’s insensual sense . . .
By far the most important of prefixes is un-.
II, 147, ... as each with other
Wrestle the wind and the unreluctant sea . . .
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