In his [Sir Stephen Sedley]'s view:
The notion that the prime function
of human rights and indeed the Rule of law is to protect the weak against the
strong is not mere sentimentality.
Source: p 43, The English Legal System 2012-2013, Gary Slapper
- What's the big picture behind similarities and differences? I ask not only about sentimentality here. I can't access this resource, so I resorted to Etymonline:
-ism: suffix forming nouns of action, state, condition, doctrine
.-ity:
suffix forming abstract nouns from adjectives, meaning "condition or quality of being __,
2. When are these suffixes redundant, and does the noun itself suffice?
For example, definition 2 of sentiment = definition of sentimentality. How and why?
Best Answer
As I commented, I don't have an answer for your question #2. But I can help you with your question #1. The resources you were trying to access and can't seems to redirect to Fowler's Modern English Usage page. Even I don't have access to that page, but I have an image of that page from that book. Here is that page. Please have a look -
Download this image from here