The Renaissance A large interest in classical languages and their literature England and Scotland become one monarchy this was a time of language invention as writers commonly looked for words to used that provided an adequate description prefixes 'un-' 'fore-' 'under-' and suffixes '-ness' '-able' '-ment' becomes more commonly used as well as compounds (jan 1, 1500 – jan 1, 1650)
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jan 1, 1500
jan 1, 1650
~ 150 years