Note 46 — DIVISION OF WORDS

I was once asked how I would carry out the rule that part of the word left in one line should suggest what followed in the next, in such a case as ‘disproportionableness’, which, according to Sir James Murray, is one of the longest words in the English language; or ‘incircumscriptibleness’, used by one Byfield, a divine, in 1615, who wrote, ‘The immensity of Christ’s divine nature hath ... incircumscriptibleness in respect of place’; or again, ‘antidisestablishmentarians’, quoted in the biography of Archbishop Benson, where he says that ‘the Free Kirk of the North of Scotland are strong antidisestablishmentarians’.—H. H.