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neology

[nee-ol-uh-jee] / niˈɒl ə dʒi /




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Some have more to do with neology than psychology.

From Time Magazine Archive

Neolog′ic, -al, pertaining to neology: using new words.—adv.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

And give the word neologism to our language, as a root, and it should give us its fellow substantives, neology, neologist, neologization; its adjectives, neologous, neological, neologistical; its verb, neologize; and adverb neologically.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph

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 Francis Cunningham

"Oh! neology, and all that sort of thing."

From Adela Cathcart, Volume 1 by George MacDonald

If it had been in one of those accepted as genuine and poetical I would have remembered the ballad, but my impression is that it was condemned as a fabrication for this and other neologies.

From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by John Hill Burton




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