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New ˈEnglish, a.
[f. New England, after English.]
Of or pertaining to New England.
1634E. Winslow in Morton New Engl. Canaan (1883) 84 Two of the arrantest knaves that ever trod on New English shore. 1647Ward Simp. Cobler 53 It is..as empty as a New-English purse. 1713S. Sewall Diary 16 Sept., An August Speech, Shewing the Validity and Antiquity of New English Ordinations. 1870Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. i. (1873) 234 All their unconscious training by eye and ear, were New English wholly.
†b. absol. as pl. The inhabitants of New England. Obs.
1643Trapp Comm. Gen. iv. 23 A certaine Indian comming into a house of the New-English. 1647Ward Simp. Cobler 3 Such as have given or taken any unfriendly reports of us New-English, should do well to recollect themselves. |