单词 | novelist |
释义 | novelistn. 1. An innovator (in thought or belief); someone who introduces something new or who favours novelty. Chiefly derogatory. Now archaic and rare.Common in 17th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > [noun] > innovation or avant-gardism > innovator or avant-gardist novelist1593 innovator1598 novateur1600 novator1600 noveller1604 novist1660 setter-up1713 innovationist1800 vanguardist1934 avant-gardist1940 1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 130 All the grayer heads begin to be stale with these Noouellists. 1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum 571 Augustine doth directly oppose himselfe to all such Dogmatistes and Nouelistes. 1635 T. Jackson Humiliation Sonne of God viii. xxxiii. 376 Those sophistical Novelists who thus mispoint the words of his promise. 1659 B. Walton Considerator Considered i. 2 Superstitious Romanists on the one hand, &..fiery Novellists on the other. 1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iv. xix. 357 To have his Authority of forty years standing..overturned by an upstart Novelist. 1725 D. Cotes tr. L. E. Du Pin New Eccl. Hist. 17th Cent. II. vi. iii. 239 By this Faith he must not understand a simple Belief (with the Novelists). 1997 I. Pears Instance of Fingerpost (1998) 73 All that you novelists have done is to find out new reasons for ancient practice, and show how a few trifles work in ways other than was supposed. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > [noun] > novice or beginner younglingOE new-comeOE novice1340 ginner?c1400 beginner1470 apprentice1489 prentice1489 infant1526 freshmana1557 intrant1560 enterer1565 puny?1570 weakling1575 new comeling1587 novist1587 incipient1589 puisne1592 abecedary1596 neophyte1600 abecedarian1603 bachelor1604 novelist?1608 alphabetary1611 breeching boy1611 tiro1611 alphabetarian1614 principiant1619 unexperienced1622 velvet head1631 undergraduatea1659 young stager1664 greenhorn1672 battledore boy1693 youngster1706 tironist1716 novitiatea1734 recruit1749 griffin1793 initiate1811 Johnny Newcome1815 Johnny Raw1823 griff1829 plebe1833 Johnny-come-lately1839 new chum1851 blanc-bec1853 fledgling1856 rookie1868 elementarian1876 tenderfoot1881 shorthorn1888 new kid1894 cheechako1897 ring-neck1898 Johnny1901 rook1902 fresh meat1908 malihini1914 initiand1915 stooge1930 intakea1943 cub1966 ?1608 S. Lennard tr. P. Charron Of Wisdome ii. vii. 305 There is not any thing so easie that doth not hurt and hinder vs, if wee bee but nouelists therein [Fr. si nous y sommes nouueaux]. 1743 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Dec. xix. 440 When they meet with a Novelist, or an unskilful, or a modest Person. 3. A writer of novels (chiefly novel n. 4b). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > novel > [noun] > novelist novelist1633 lady novelist1684 novel-writer1728 novel-wright1779 fictionist1829 novel-puffer1841 noveller1859 novel-spinner1862 novel-maker1863 1633 C. Farewell East-India Colation 33 It beeing a pleasant observation (at a distance) to note the order of their Coaches and Carriages..As if (presented to a Novelist) it had bin the spoyles of a Tryumph leading Captive, or a preparation to some sad Execution. 1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iii. 239 Such opportunities of gallantizing their Wives, as the French and other Novelists, I mean Novel-writers, would insinuate. 1766 J. Fordyce Serm. Young Women I. iv. 155 Novelists..with whom we may join the common herd of Play-writers. 1780 W. Cowper Progress of Error 310 Ye novelists, who mar what ye would mend, Sniv'ling and driv'ling folly without end. 1804 Gentleman's Mag. 74 404 Many of our novellists..complain of the dullness of the market at home. 1833 A. Alison Hist. Europe during French Revol. I. i. 21 The graphic Novelist, with historic truth, makes Norman Richard the leader of English chivalry. 1895 R. Y. Tyrrell Lat. Poetry 220 The Greek novelists actually turned their backs on the portraiture of character. 1928 E. Waugh Let. 7 Apr. (1980) 27 How do these novelists make their books so long. 1955 Times 7 May 9/4 He has no thought of capturing our novelists, of press-ganging our poets. 1995 Time 8 May 87/3 Like most widely popular novelists, he has been pummeled by the reviewers. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > news or tidings > [noun] > bearer of news news tellera1586 newsmonger1592 newsman1596 newsbearer1598 novelant1602 news-bringer1608 news-carrier1612 occurrencer1648 news-sender1696 novelist1706 news messenger1849 breaker1864 1706 London Gaz. No. 4207/3 The Novelist; The Tale Bearer. 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 178. ⁋2 My Contemporaries the Novelists have..a most happy Art in saying and unsaying. 1771 O. Goldsmith Hist. Eng. III. 186 If we may credit the novelists of that time, the prince had already fixed his affections upon the French princess. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1593 |
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