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  • All these things have helped the growth of the nationalist movement, and have made the Indian people extremely sensitive to any illformed judgments which might appear to indicate a lack of trust, or to indicate that the Indian people are an inferior race.

    The Political Situation in India 1931

  • The eighth chapter, "Between James, and Lippa, his man, wherein they talk of many pleasant and delightsome jests, and in it is described an unpleasant lodging, an illformed old woman, also the beautiful parts that a woman ought to have to be accounted fair in all perfection, and pleasantly blazoned a counterfeit lazy and naught-worth servant."

    Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897

  • When an individual uses a new word, if illformed it is rejected in society, if wellformed, adopted, and, after due time, laid up in the depository of dictionaries.

    Letters 1760

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