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They also increase in width through appositional growth.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

It signifies, “fair the world,” i.e. happy, and is used with possessive pronouns and appositional genitives.

From A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature by Jenner, Henry

Possessive, appositional, of nouns, 49. as antecedent of relative, 285. double, of nouns, 54. double, of pronouns.

From An English Grammar by Sewell, James Witt

Similarly, when the object is a noun, it really follows the infinitive as an appositional genitive.

From A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature by Jenner, Henry

But this is not the Cornish form, which uses the simple appositional genitive in such cases. 

From A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature by Jenner, Henry