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Tuesday, December 8, 2009

#983 EMERSON'S USAGE OF 'IFY' ENDING VERBS.

The great American writer R.W. Emerson's Essays, particularly 'The American Scholar', is well known for its objectivity and profundity.

His diction needs special studies.

Here are some sentences which show his use of the verbs ending in 'ify' and their gerunds (verbal nouns). I have shortened the sentences to facilitate easy reading and comprehension.

CHOICE BOX
CERTIFY
CLASSIFY
DEIFY
DIGNIFY
FORTIFY
GRATIFY
IDENTIFY
JUSTIFY
SIGNIFY
TESTIFY
VILIFY


Fill in the blanks with suitable 'ify' verbs/gerunds/participles. Compare them with the 'ifies' used by Mr. Emerson. Hover your mouse on the word ANSWER to see it.

PHRASE/CLAUSE BOX
*A constant accumulation and ___ifying of factsANSWER.

*____ifying that the law is fatalANSWER.

*It might ___ of that particular rayANSWER.

*There is a ___ifying experience in particular which doesnot fail to wreak itself also in the general historyANSWER.

*What you have already done singly will ___ify you nowANSWER.

*I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to ____ify modish and worldly alliancesANSWER.
See this beautiful phrase of 2adj+1N: "modish and worldly alliances".

*We are to ___ify to each other the daily needs and offices of manANSWER.

*Let us not ___ify but raise it to that standardANSWER.
but rather fortify and enhanceANSWER.
REM:Here the references are to great, noble souls and cheap companions.

*As if they would ___ify that in their friend each loved his own soulANSWER.

*That it may __ify bothANSWER.
REM:It here refers to: friendship. Both = friendship + God.

*The disease and deformity around us ___ify the infraction of natural, intellectual and moral laws.ANSWER.
REM:Here see adj1-2-3 natural, intellectual, moral - for one three-lettered noun 'law'.

*so that it is useless to __ify yourself against himANSWER.
*to ___ify and signalize each otherANSWER.

*list can ___ify skulking and dissimulationsANSWER.

*High-breeding would ___ify us in the assemblageANSWER.
REM:Here, the reference is to: "the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe".

*___ify it and proffer itANSWER.
REM: Note the beautiful verb proffer.

*a bit of stone from the city wall would ___ify us of the necessity that man must existANSWER.
REM: Even walls do not exist for ever. We have recently seen the celebration of the Silver Jubilee of Demolition of the Berlin Wall.

*Each prophet comes presently to ___ify himself with his thoughtANSWER.
REM:Each prophet here refers to: Jacob Behmen, George Foxbetray and James Nayloronce.
*Instead of ___fying ourselves with the workANSWER.

*To heap itself on that ridge and to ___ify and hem in the lifeANSWER.
REM:The '-ify' here is intransitive. Alternatively, we can say 'solidify itself' and call it transitive.

*I am not careful to ___ify myselfANSWER.

*They wrote together and their styles were so similar that critics are unable to ___ify the share of each in their numerous playsANSWER.
REM: They here means: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

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