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LisaHi commented on the word passival
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Here’s another good example of the esteemed passival from T.B. Macaulay’s “The History of England from the Accession of James II”:
It was much noticed that, while the foulest judicial murder which had disgraced even those times was perpetrating, a tempest burst forth, such as had not been known since that great hurricane which had raged round the death-bed of Oliver.
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July 13, 2011