neology

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Some have more to do with neology than psychology.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the first place, they describe only one side of the case; for, if there is much infidelity and neology on the continent, there is also a considerable sprinkling of true religion. 

From A Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Bexley containing a statement to the committee of the British and Foreign Bible Society by Cunningham, Francis

Mr. Milburn, in one of his chapters, gives an account of his passage through what he is pleased to call neology and rationalism.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 by Various

The whiteness and crystalline form of saltpetre presented a sufficient analogy to attach to it a similar name, neology being in those days not quite so common or so easy as at present.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 by Various

But even the dictionary is not large enough for him, and he extends it this way and that, his daring neology creating consternation among the critic flies and other ephemera.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by Brann, William Cowper