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Avid learner Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

Inveterate & bane as verbs

Hi,

I'm aware that words such as inveterate (adj) & bane (n) once were also used as verbs.
Is it wrong if I use these words as verbs or is it simply not very common?

Thanks, AL
  

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As far as I am aware, the two you mention are unknown as verbs in modern English. ("such as" implies that you have others in mind, but there's no way to know what they are. )

— GPY

  • As far as I am aware, the two you mention are unknown as verbs in modern English.
  • ("such as" implies that you have others in mind, but there's no way to know what they are.
  • )
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As far as I am aware, the two you mention are unknown as verbs in modern English.

("such as" implies that you have others in mind, but there's no way to know what they are. Perhaps you did not actually mean "such as".)
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GPYAs far as I am aware, the two you mention are unknown as verbs in modern English.
So, is it grammatically wrong then, to use them as verbs in modern English?
e.g.:
1. The conspirators successfully bane the King.
2. The second stage of the re-education is to inveterate the party's dogmas into the captives' minds.
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"Bane" is listed in dictionaries as an obsolete verb, meaning to kill: "He'll bane the king if we don't stop him." But "bane" is a noun, and nouns are easily turned into verbs, not so easily adjectives, so I don't see how "inveterate" could have been a verb. But in any case neither can be used as verbs today.
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