Both Uses
irregular verb
in
The Mill on the Floss
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- But his faith broke down under the apparent absence of all help when he got into the irregular verbs.†
Chpt 2.1 *
- Tom, as I said, had never been so much like a girl in his life before, and at that epoch of irregular verbs his spirit was further depressed by a new means of mental development which had been thought of for him out of school hours.†
Chpt 2.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(irregular verb) a verb that falls outside the standard patterns of conjugation; e.g., "feel" because its past tense is "felt" rather than "feeled."
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)