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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.

    Source: http://www.onthemedia.org/blogs/on-the-media/2011/jul/12/lexicon-valley-files/

    July 13, 2011

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