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Neologism   Listen
noun
Neologism  n.  
1.
The introduction of new words, or the use of old words in a new sense.
2.
A new word, phrase, or expression.
3.
A new doctrine; specifically, rationalism.





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"Neologism" Quotes from Famous Books



... blank verse so well, as to convince the public, that the beauties of Klopstock can be naturalized without strangeness, and his peculiarities retained without affectation; that quaintness, the unavoidable companion of neologism, is as needless to genius, as hostile to grace; the hexameter, until it is familiar, must repel, and, when it is familiar, may annoy; that it wants a musical orderliness of sound; and that its cantering capricious movement ...
— Translations of German Poetry in American Magazines 1741-1810 • Edward Ziegler Davis
... 37. "Perplex," neologism of the writer; used to indicate a phenomenon frequent in both normal and psychopathic subjects; to wit, a group of delimitable stimulus-ideas, persisting as such, and unadjusted—a complex of persisting ...
— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10
... system of servitude was ever so preposterous. A crude notion of popular freedom in the equality of ranks abolished the very designation of "servant," substituting the fantastic term of "helps." If there be any meaning left in this barbarous neologism, their aid amounts to little; their engagements are made by the week, and they often quit their domicile without ...
— Literary Character of Men of Genius - Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions • Isaac D'Israeli


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