"Neoterism" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 'made and being made,' 'the bride that was being married to him,' and 'the shafts of Heaven were even now being forged.' On one occasion he writes, 'Not done, not even (according to modern purism) being done'; as if 'purism' meant exactness, rather than the avoidance of neoterism. ...
— The Verbalist • Thomas Embly Osmun, (AKA Alfred Ayres) |
