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III. Verbs [except Participles].
There are several things of interest in the formations
of verbs, even if we exclude the abounding peculiarities
of participles. Almost all, occur in the department of
prefixes, and their combinations with verbs.
Some anomalies arise here as elsewhere through the
want of a complete and exhaustive dictionary of the
English language. N. E. D., which fulfils all expectations to
an unprecedented degree, is at the time of writing (Feb.
1910) available only as far as Premious. C. D., which
comes next to it in accuracy and completeness,
nevertheless does not reach anything like the same level. This is
shown most strikingly in this very department.
On the whole, comparatively few new formations have
been noted; but prefixes seem to be generally regarded by
dictionaries as a feature of Swinburne’s language. Not
less than twelve out of some forty cases that were
originally noted by me are quoted more or less exclusively
from Swinburne by N. E. D.
Prefixes and their use will, in fact, chiefly interest us
while they afford several clues to the principles of
Swinburne’s choice of words. As I have already had occasion to
say (pp. 67 — 70), there are four principal motives in the
word-formation and the choice of words. One of them, without
doubt, is the aim at word-music, and this stylistical motive
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