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Definition of Newfangledness
1. n. Affectation of, or fondness for, novelty; vain or affected fashion or form.
Definition of Newfangledness
1. Noun. The quality of being newfangled. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Newfangledness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Newfangledness
Literary usage of Newfangledness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"... that to chuse this, were it not for some wic-grown occasion, making that which
hath been better worse. Id. Yet he them in newfangledness did pass. ..."
2. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1905)
"All questioning of the principles on which the religious establishment was based
was in her eyes intolerable presumption" or frivolous " newfangledness. ..."
3. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"All questioning of the principles on •which the religious establishment was based
was in her eyes intolerable " presumption " or frivolous " newfangledness. ..."
4. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"newfangledness, Folly, and the 1 like, but manv of the gods and goddesses of !
i lassical mythology also figure in the dramatis ..."
5. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1901)
"Among the best known is his "Satire on Town Ladies," in which the "newfangledness
of geir" is amusingly exposed.—HENDERSON.TF, 1893, Dictionary of National ..."
6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1840)
"If you borrow these lessons from Christopher's school, The result, my good friends,
may be left to old Bull ; Even Peggy and Pat, their newfangledness past, ..."
7. Criminality and Economic Conditions by Willem Adriaan Bonger (1916)
"... all other sorts of people, use much strange and proud newfangledness in their
apparel, and too much prodigal riot and sumptuous fare at their table. ..."
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