Every cancer victim is a true hero.

It made occasional forays into nounhood, in fixed expressions like without fail and no-fail.

Elizabeth Clark argues cogently that syneisaktism provided a couple with a rare opportunity for friendship between the sexes. […] John Chrysostom, for example, who wrote two treatises against syneisaktism, was also a powerful advocate for female virginity, which he occasionally presented as a means of escaping Eve's curse of subordination.

They toiled forward along a tiny path on the river’s lip. Suddenly it vanished. The bank was sheer red solid clay in front of them, sloping straight into the river.