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单词 newness
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newnessn.

Brit. /ˈnjuːnəs/, U.S. /ˈn(j)unəs/
Forms: Old English neownes (chiefly Anglian), Old English neownys (chiefly Anglian), Old English niownes (chiefly Anglian), Old English niwnys, Middle English–1500s newenesse, Middle English–1600s newnes, Middle English–1600s newnesse, 1500s neunes, 1500s newenes, 1600s– newness.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: new adj., -ness suffix.
Etymology: < new adj. + -ness suffix.
1.
a. The state, fact, or quality of being new.
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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [noun]
newnesseOE
novelrya1393
novelty1402
newelty1435
newhead?a1475
novelnessa1485
novellityc1485
novity1569
youtha1600
novelism1626
spick-and-span newness1640
noveltiness1690
brand-newness1854
gee-whizzery1971
eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) ii. xxxv. 240 Þæt seo niownes þara metta mæge him gode beon.
OE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Cambr. Univ. Libr.) i. vii. 40 Ða wæs se dema æfter ðyssum mid þa neownysse swa monigra heofonlicra wundra swyþe gedrefed.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Rom. vii.6 We ben vnbounden fro the lawe of deeth..we serue in newenesse of spirit, and not in oldnesse of lettre.
a1400 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Hatton 12) in Eng. Writings (1931) 7 To confourme þo þat ere fyled in Adam tille Crist in newnes of lyf.
?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 86 Newnesse, nouitas.
1526 Pylgrimage of Perfection (de Worde) f. 211 [To] ryse from synne, and walke in a newnes of lyfe.
a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) ii. f. 65v Neyther oldnes nor newnesse of wordes maketh the greatest difference betwixt Salust and Tullie.
1622 Ess. Valour in T. Overbury et al. His Wife (11th impr.) sig. Q7v She will desire him for newnesse and varietie.
1626 S. D'Ewes Let. 4 Feb. in Autobiogr. & Corr. (1845) II. 176 The newnes and greatnes of the action busied men's thoughts.
1674 D. Brevint Saul & Samuel 240 Either to blind or to countenance the Newness of their Indulgences.
1729 W. Law Serious Call xxiii. 471 It will give you such a newness of mind.
1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) II. 176 This reflection..evidently demonstrates the newness of the World.
1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab vi. 80 The babe In the dim newness of its being.
1876 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 243 The same startle of newness and beauty that pleased our youth.
1917 H. James Middle Years iv. 46 Whereas the smartness and newness beyond the sea supposedly disavowed the low, they did so but thinly and vainly, falling markedly short of the high.
1975 Broadcast 16 June 21/3 You can actually taste the newness of Jersey new potatoes.
b. A new thing; a novelty.
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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [noun] > that which is new
neweOE
newness1690
N1732
spick and span1758
1690 J. Dryden Don Sebastian Pref. sig. A Some newnesses of English, translated from the Beauties of Modern Tongues.
1770 H. Brooke Fool of Quality V. xvi. 62 She became, as it were, a newness of ever-rising delight.
1850 T. T. Lynch Memorials Theophilus Trinal ix. 154 Many such marriages must there be before all the newnesses will be born that mankind requires.
1881 Appletons' Jrnl. Dec. 514 The new ideas..are like the human nature..: they seek for newnesses and strangenesses, because they take them to be signs of freedom.
1931 Jrnl. Philos. 28 155 Unpredicted newnesses are..characteristic of the life of the mind.
1984 G. Grigson Recoll. Mainly of Writers & Artists vi. 28 What I have called the Situation was multiplex... A second newness was arriving.
2. the Newness: New England transcendentalism (see transcendentalism n. 1b). Obsolete.
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society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > Transcendentalism (New England) > [noun]
the Newness1842
1842 Dial 3 229 He [sc. J. P. Greaves] has been, I consider, a great apostle of the Newness to many.
1865 J. R. Lowell Thoreau in N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 598 There was a much nearer metaphysical relation..between Carlyle and the Apostles of the Newness, as they were called in New England, than has been commonly supposed.
c1870 R. Carter in Cent. Mag. (1889) Nov. 129 Next to Brook Farm, Concord was the chief resort of the disciples of the ‘Newness’.
1896 Atlantic Monthly Dec. 768 That seething and exciting period marked by what the outside world called vaguely ‘Transcendentalism’, and the enthusiasts inside the movement sometimes termed ‘the Gospel of the Newness’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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