[…] most general and grandest of movements of signification, which carries words over from a more material and substantial value toward one that is more conceptual and formal, in its two departments of the making of intellectual expression and the production of form-words - in the former, turning more to the uses of new thought; in the latter, more toward the completion of the expression of old thought […].
- Whitney (1875), Pag. 114

[…] the auxiliary apparatus of inflections and form-words, wherein various tongues are most of all discordant, each making its own selection of what it will express and what it will leave for the mind to understand without expression.
- Whitney (1875), Pag. 21