Crossword-Solution: DESINENCE 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

With an infinity of time, space, matter and motion, everywhere presenting a unity of phenomena in the universe, "there can never be anything," according to the great Stagirite, "unconnected or out of place, as in a bad tragedy." Conservation must, therefore, be the rule, and desinence the impossible exception.

The extreme facility with which the language lends itself to rhyming desinence has a most injurious effect upon versification.

The English Bible, with its tendency to require the full name as a matter of reverence, while it supplied new names in the place of the old ones that were accustomed to the desinence, caused this.

Coming to baptism, we find scarcely a single name of any pretensions to popularity that did not take to itself this desinence.

Richelot for Richard, Hobelot and Robelot for Robert, Crestolot for Christopher, Cesselot for Cecilia, and Barbelot for Barbara, are found also, and prove that the desinence had made its mark.