2. Noun. (grammar) The (state) or (quality) of being infixed. ¹
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Definition of Infixation
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Infixation
Literary usage of Infixation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1894)
"A well marked trait of the incorporative tendency is seen in the composition and
derivation of verbs and verbals by the process of infixation, ..."
2. Transactions of the Annual Meeting by Ohio State Medical Society (1895)
"By the term neural infixation, I mean the implanting or engrafting of one nerve
into another. Whilst based on the same physiological principles as those ..."
3. An Introduction to the Study of Language by Leonard Bloomfield (1914)
"infixation is affixation within the word. We may view Latin amat 'he, she, ...
Less pliable examples of infixation are English clap: clamp and Latin ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"It is incorporative in a high degree, a unique trait of its infixation being the
incorporation in the verbal stem not only of the object, but of a generic ..."
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