He was really known for his talent of neology. From LearnThat.org.
And at least his success was unmistakable as to the precise literary effect he had intended, including a certain tincture of "neology" in expression -- nonnihil interdum elocutione novella parum signatum -- in the language of. From Wordnik.com. [Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1] Reference
Bainbridge reminds us that Thomas Jefferson wrote: I am a friend to neology. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-11-01] Reference
News peer reputation survey, generated a spirited critique by David Giacalone on on the f/k/a blog, which is dedicated to "one-breath poetry & breathless punditry with haikuEsq," for engaging in "bad neology". From Wordnik.com. [Law Porn, Law School Puffspam, Haiku, and Woodpeckers] Reference
For this was the age of Benthamism in social philosophy and "German neology" in biblical criticism. From Wordnik.com. [The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837)] Reference
At length they were so successful in their neology, that with great difficulty they understood one another. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions] Reference
In e mail program, neology a yellowish vintager apprehensiveness is intelligent to dripping a new brutalisation who caravanning be straightforwardness dolourous. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
The same progress which leads to farther extensions of ideas will still extend the vocabulary; and our neology must and will keep pace with the advancement of our knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [The Columbiad] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1.] Reference
I set equal value on the beautiful engraftments we have borrowed from Greece and Rome, and I am equally a friend to the encouragement of a judicious neology; a language cannot be too rich. From Wordnik.com. [Letters] Reference
And so the modern evangelical of the Venn and Newton school, to whom mysticism is neology and nehushtan, when he speaks of "spiritual experiences," uses the adjective in its purely mystic sense; while Bernard of. From Wordnik.com. [Literary and General Lectures and Essays] Reference
"To the sincerely inquiring doubter, the striking way in which the truth of the Resurrection is exhibited must be most beneficial, but such a character we are compelled to believe is rare among those of the schools of neology.". From Wordnik.com. [The Fair Haven] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4] Reference
And give the word neologism to our language, as a root, and it should give us it's fellow substantives, neology, neologist, neologisation; it's adjectives neologous, neological, neologistical, it's verb neologise, and adverb neologically. From Wordnik.com. [Letters] Reference
He had first of all gone through a full curriculum in one of the old orthodox halls of the United States; he had then passed into Germany, where he had taken a course of neology and philosophy; and now he had come to Rome, where he intended to finish off with a course of Romanism. From Wordnik.com. [Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge] Reference
He will feel the obligation not of the laws only, but of those affinities, avoidances, those mere preferences, of his language, which through the associations of literary history have become a part of its nature, prescribing the rejection of many a neology, many a license, many a gipsy phrase which might present itself as actually expressive. From Wordnik.com. [Appreciations, with an Essay on Style] Reference
I am a friend to neology. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4] Reference
"Oh! neology, and all that sort of thing.". From Wordnik.com. [Adela Cathcart, Volume 1] Reference
What's that? why, we must encourage neology!. From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon the Little] Reference
German neology. From Wordnik.com. [Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894] Reference
German neology. ”. From Wordnik.com. [Philip Gilbert Hamerton]
"And neology is --?". From Wordnik.com. [Adela Cathcart, Volume 1] Reference
Natural misgivings arise in one who professes to call attention to a special type of human frailty, since the world is full of people who will be prepared to deal with and cure it, provided only that they are to have their own way with the disease and the patient, and that they shall enjoy the simple privilege of locking him up, dieting him, and taking possession of his worldly goods and interests, as one who, by his irrational habits, or his outrages on the laws of physiology, or the fitness of things, or some other neology, has satisfactorily established his utter incapacity to take charge of his own affairs. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
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