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The act of attaching

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  • Another marked feature of Bantu verbs is their power of modifying the sense of the original verbal root by suffixes, the affixion of which modifies the terminal vowel...
  • The intriguers prepared a decree revoking the letters patent of 1544, which had suspended proceedings against the Vaudois; and when the keeper of the seals refused to present...
  • A king is all very well, of course, but no husband wears a crown so as to prevent the affixion of other head-gear. "
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