neologistn.

1785 J. Trusler Mod. Times I. 135 He called himself a nealogist [sic], or a former of new words.

1814 I. D'Israeli Quarrels Auth. III. 145 The vicious Neologist, who debases the purity of English diction by affecting new words or phrases.

1827 Westm. Rev. 8 395 We have an interesting anecdote..inserted in the language of Gravina, as a hint to neologists.

1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xii. 213 I should as soon think..of quarrelling with the professors for not admiring the young neologists who pluck the beards of Euclid and Aristotle.

1940 Amer. Lit. 12 76 One aspect of her [sc. Judith Murray's] literary and political nationalism is her use of dialect in the ‘Captain Seafort’ letters and in her plays. This, however, does not mean that she was a militant neologist.

1969 Q. Rev. Biol. 44 414/2 The glossary includes..the name of the neologist and the date of introduction for each term.

1992 Eng. Today July 59/3 Over the past century and a half more than eighty neologists have coined common gender or epicene pronouns to fill what many people feel is a black hole in our pronoun system.

1822 G. H. Rose Let. 24 July in S. Freitag & P. Wende Brit. Envoys Germany (2000) I. 185 The very great Majority of the Provincial Clergy in Protestant Germany are Neologists,—that is, they are at the beat Socinians, and, from that sect downwards, they vary in endless shades of heresy, or irreligion.

1830 E. B. Pusey Let. in H. P. Liddon et al. Life E. B. Pusey (1893) I. x. 242 The Neologist..solution of miracles.

1875 C. Merivale Gen. Hist. Rome li. 404 In vain had Rome attempted..to ward off the attacks of the foreign neologists by pretending to interpret her own mythology and ritual.

1973 Renaissance Q. 26 193 Bossard's discussion of Viret as a neologist is especially clever and stimulating.

1993 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 65 61 The Halle neologist J. S. Semler's defense of a ‘freer mode of teaching’ the Protestant canon.

1827 Eclectic Rev. July 18 The most false and dangerous notions..lie at the basis of the Neologistic theory.

1884 Atlantic Monthly Nov. 718/1 How, in some dingy Boston or New York loft,..would he so brew his coffee as to draw from it the Contes Drolatiques of neologistic Young America?

1935 Mind 44 524 Philosophers who have absorbed a glut of new systems of logistic during the last decade..must face the invention of yet another neologistic language with something like dismay.

1936 Theology 32 73 The Catholic is quite sure that there is a God, and that in no neologistic sense.

1993 Guardian 9 June ii. 10/1 He spent many years rendering Nikos Kazantzakis's monumental poem..into language that would do justice to the complex, often neologistic, original.

1820 T. Jefferson Let. 15 Aug. in Writings (1984) 1443 Give the word neologism to our language, as a root, and it should give us..it's [sic] adjectives neologous, neological, neologistical, [etc.].