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▪ I. † new, n.1 Obs. rare.
[For nue, nuy, aphetic form of anuy annoy n.]
Trouble, sorrow.
c1440York Myst. xlv. 144 All þat are in newe or in nede. Ibid. xlvii. 96 Thy tyme is paste of all þi care,..Of newe schall þou witte neuere more.
▪ II. new, a. and n.2|njuː|
Forms: 1–3 niwe, (1 niue, 3 nywe, niewe), 1 niowe, 1–3 neowe, (3 neouwe), 1–7 newe, (3 neuwe, 5 neewe), 4 nu(we), nwe, 5 now(e, 4–6 neu, (5 nev), 4– new.
[Common Teut.: OE. níwe, níowe, néowe = OFris. nŷ, nî, MDu. nieuwe, nuwe, nie, OS. niwi, nigi, OHG. niuwi, niuui (MHG. niuwe, niwe, niu, G. neu), ON. nýr (Sw. and Da. ny), Goth. niujis:—OTeut. *neujoz, from the common Aryan stem *neu(j)-, which appears in Gr. νέος (Ionic νεῖος), Lith. naũjas, Skr. návyas and navas, Lat. novus, OSl. novŭ (Russ. novȳĭ), OIr. nūe (Ir. and Gael. nuadh).]
A. adj.
I.
1. a. Not existing before; now made, or brought into existence, for the first time.
c825Vesp. Psalter xxxii. 3 Singað him song neowne. a1000Exod. 362 Niwe flodas Noe oferlað..mid his þrim sunum. a1000Phœnix 431 He ᵹetimbreð tanum & wyrtum..eardwic niwe, nest on bearwe. c1000ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 150/36 Constructio, niwe timbrung. c1205Lay. 2675 Þa ferde þe king..& ane neowe burh makede. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 5494 Nywe abbeys he made vaste þe gode aþelston. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xx. 255 God..nempned names newe and noumbred þe sterres. 1382Wyclif 1 Sam. vi. 7 Nowe thanne takith, and makith a newe weyn. 1520Calisto & Melib. C j b, Well mother, to morow is a new day. 1575–85Abp. Sandys Serm. (Parker Soc.) 66 They should remember that their religion is as new as false. 1611Bible Transl. Pref. ⁋6 Aquila fell in hand with a new Translation. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 460 Pleas'd I am..the way to new Discov'ries make. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) VIII. 18 A new crop of hair grows between the old skin and the new. 1852M. Arnold Empedocles Poet. Wks. (1890) 449 So each new man strikes root into a far fore-time. 1876Duhring Dis. Skin 404 Diseases, which..consist pathologically of a new growth in the skin. 1891Law Rep., Weekly Notes 78/2 The lessor was desirous of pulling the house down and building a new one on its site.
b. Of a kind now first invented or introduced; novel.
13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 1354 In notyng of nwe metes & of nice gettes. 1611W. Goddard Satir. Dial. E j b, Newe-fashiond cloathes I loue to weare, Newe tires, newe ruffes. 1673S'too him Bayes 9 He would imagine it was a sluice, or some newer kind of engine. 1784Cowper Task i. 43 A lattice-work that braced The new machine, and it became a Chair. 1818J. C. Hobhouse Hist. Illustr. (ed. 2) 402 He composed a sort of drama, altogether new, which he called a melo-tragedy.
2. Not previously known; now known for the first time:
a. of things spoken or heard.
Beowulf 2898 Lyt swiᵹode niwra spella. c900tr. Bæda's Hist. i. xxv. (Schipper) 54/1 Fæᵹere word þis syndon.., ac forðon hi niwe synðon & uncuðe [etc.]. a1000in Narrat. Angl. Conscr. (1861) 3 Ðas niwan spel ic ðe ealle in cartan awrite. c1205Lay. 26194 He talde þan kinge neouwe tiðende. c1250Gen. & Ex. 1286 Ðo herde abraham steuene fro gode, Newe tiding. c1400Mandeville (1839) xxxi. 314 Men seyn alle weys, that newe thynges and newe tydynges ben plesant to here. 1638Baker tr. Balzac's Lett. (vol. II.) 30 Your part is not..to bring it forth as a New Matter. 1667Milton P.L. v. 855 Strange point and new! Doctrin which we would know whence learnt. 1687Norris Coll. Misc. 150 How absurd..that venerable non-sense should be prefer'd before new-sense. 1751R. Paltock P. Wilkins xliii, Another went on, till we had heard ten of them, and in every one something new. 1781Cowper Conversat. 237 Tell not as new what everybody knows. 1821Shelley Hellas 592 Prophesyings horrible and new Are heard among the crowd.
(b) a new one (spec. an anecdote or a joke; also, a circumstance not previously encountered). Usu. const. on (a person). orig. U.S.
1887Lantern (New Orleans) 17 Dec. 2/3 Isn't this a new one on you, Messrs. Police? 1900Ade Fables in Slang 74 The Pew-Holders didn't even admit among themselves that the Preacher had rung in some New Ones. 1930D. L. Sayers Strong Poison xx. 256 ‘I warn you..that you still have to establish evidence as to means and opportunity.’ ‘I know that. Tell us a new one.’ 1931T. H. Dey Leaves from Bookmaker's Bk. iii. 72 Charles Austin, Wilkie Bard and Ernie Lotinga too, are excellent private raconteurs and George Robey has always got a ‘new one’. 1939C. Isherwood Goodbye to Berlin 72 That's a new one on me... I never suspected the boy of having a mind at all. 1940J. Cary Charley is My Darling xv. 77 Ginger reflects a moment and says then: ‘It's a new one on me’, meaning that he has not yet broken the law. 1952‘M. Innes’ Private View iii. 45 He said there was blood pouring through his ceiling. That was a new one on the station sergeant. 1971‘A. Gilbert’ Tenant for Tomb vi. 93 Her brother?.. That's a new one on me.
b. Of feelings, experiences, events, etc.
a900Cynewulf Elene 869 Hæfdon neowne ᵹefean mærðum ᵹemeted. 971Blickl. Hom. 135 Him ne wæs næniᵹ earfoþe þæt lichomlice ᵹedal on ᵹære neowan wyrde. c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 66 His falshed brouht vs sorowe alle newe. c1368Chaucer Compl. Pite 29 Yet encreseth me this wonder newe. a1400–50Alexander 1240 Neȝis þam a-nothire note as new as þe first. c1470Gol. & Gaw. 501, I suld fynd thame new notis for this ix yeir. 1551Recorde Pathw. Knowl. Ep. King, Thei again shal haue new and new causes to pray for your maiestie. 1671Milton P.R. i. 334 Where ought we hear, and curious are to hear, What happ'ns new. 1732T. Lediard Sethos II. ix. 306 The successes of war are not new. 1781Cowper Table-T. 734 'Twere new indeed to see a bard all fire. 1876J. Parker Paracl. ii. xviii. 295 Opposition is nothing new as applied to Christain faith. 1899J. Smith Chr. Charac. 196 The new religious consciousness of acceptance and union with God.
Comb.1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm I. 34 Such new-like occurrences.
c. Of countries, etc., now first discovered.
c15111st Eng. Bk. Amer. (Arb.) Introd. 27 Of the newe landes..founde by the messengers of the kynge of portyngale. 1610Shakes. Temp. v. i. 184 Mir. O braue new world That has such people in't. Pro. 'Tis new to thee. 1667Milton P.L. i. 290 To descry new Lands, Rivers or Mountains in her spotty Globe. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 280 What signifies..the people of Spain seeking new countries? 1879Morley Burke 21 In East and West new lands were being brought under the dominion of Great Britain.
d. Of things or persons.
1626Bacon Sylva §477 So you may have great Varietie of New Fruits, and Flowers yet unknowne. 1697G. Burghope Disc. Relig. Assemb. 181 New things only are able to awake us. a1734North Lives (1826) III. 145 This new kind of Arithmetic, which he had never heard of before. 1781Cowper Conversat. 531 The new acquaintance soon became a guest. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop i, We were going quite a new road.
e. Strange, unfamiliar (to one).
1595Shakes. John iii. i. 305 Alacke, how new Is husband in my mouth. 1638Junius Paint. Ancients 25 Nothing in such a case could be new unto him. 1667Milton P.L. iii. 613 Here matter new to gaze the Devil met Undazl'd. 1710Lady M. W. Montagu Lett., to Mrs. Hewet (1887) I. 28 We go next week into Wiltshire, which will be quite a new world to us. 1784Cowper Task iv. 710 New to my taste, his Paradise surpassed [etc.]. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xxi. IV. 545 To English shopkeepers and farmers military extortion was happily quite new. 1859Tennyson Geraint 808 She could cast aside A splendour dear to women, new to her, And therefore dearer.
3. a. Coming as a resumption or repetition of some previous act or thing; starting afresh.
Beowulf 1789 Þa wæs eft swa ær..fæᵹere ᵹereorded niowan stefne. c1000Cædmon's Gen. 1555 Ða Noe ongan niwan stefne mid hleomaᵹum ham staðelian. c1205Lay. 27494 Heo..neouwe ueht [c 1275 neuwe fiht] bi-gunnen narewe iþrungen. a1300Cursor M. 1592 For-þi in forme of iugement He thoght a neu wengaunce to sent. 1340Ayenb. 107 Þet is a newe cristninge. c1386Chaucer Frankl. T. 287 Tho come hir othere freendes many oon, And..sodeinly bigonne revel newe. 1508Dunbar Flyting 297 Ȝit of new tressone, I can tell the tailis. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 91 Thus was he brought agayne in to a newe hope of a concorde. 1607Shakes. Cor. iii. i. 1 Tullus Auffidius then had made new head. 1674Milton P.L. (ed. 2) xii. 5 The Archangel paus'd..; Then with transition sweet new Speech resumes. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) III. 471 Upon a motion for a new trial, it was urged [etc.]. 1872Raymond Statist. Mines 209 The quartz-mining enterprises..took a new start.
b. Fresh, further, additional.
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 17, I had rather cut off all old acquaintance with him,..then to seeke after newe friendship. 1580–1Reg. Privy Council Scot. III. 362 He obtenit confirmatioun of his said pensioun.., with supplement of new gift and dispositioun thairof. 1667Milton P.L. iii. 468 [They] still with vain designe New Babels, had they wherewithall, would build. 1759Goldsm. Bee No. 2 Wks. (Globe) 366/1 The most calamitous events..can bring no new affliction. 1796H. Hunter tr. St.-Pierre's Stud. Nat. (1799) III. 4 This perception adds a new degree of probability. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. v. I. 531 If he gave no new cause of displeasure. Ibid. 580 Commissions were issued for the levying of new regiments.
c. Restored after demolition, decay, disappearance, etc.
c1000–[see new moon 1]. 1056–66Inscr. at Kirkdale Ch. (Yorks), He hit let macan newan from grvnde. c1375Cursor M. 23399 (Fairf.), Squa has our lorde be-fore vs hiȝt Þat he sal new our bodis make. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xviii. 43 To fordone it on o day, and in thre dayes after Edefye it eft newe. 1483Cath. Angl. 254/1 To make Newe, novare. c1600Shakes. Sonn. lxxvi, As the Sun is daily new and old. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 476 Till the new Ram receives th' exalted Sun. 1859Tennyson Geraint 70 The new sun Beat thro' the blindless casement of the room.
4. a. Other than the former or old; different from that previously existing, known, or used. Also † new and new. new breed: see breed n. 2 c; new order, a new regime or government; spec. (cf. G. die neue Ordnung), Hitler's plan for the reconstitution of the States of Europe on the basis of a National-Socialist regime; new technology: esp. (a) technology that radically alters the way something is produced or performed, often involving computers. Of a coinage: replacing a former monetary unit, e.g. new franc, new penny.
c950Lindisf. Gosp. Mark i. 27 Huælc lar [is] ðius.. niua [c 1000 Hwæt is þeos niwe lar]. Ibid. John xiii. 34 Bebod niua ic selo iuh. c1000ælfric Hom. I. 96 Þu bist ᵹeciᵹed niwum naman. c1205Lay. 30701 Heo scupten heore lauerde ænne nome neowe. a1300Cursor M. 1975 A couenand neu ic hight to þe. 1382Wyclif 2 Cor. v. 17 Oolde thingis han passid, and lo! alle thingis ben maad newe. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 150 b, He shall haue a newe knowlege in his soule by grace. 1577–87Holinshed Chron. I. 21/2 He must turne the leafe, and take out a new lesson. 1617Moryson Itin. i. 271 From the Citie Armstat..we had a new measure of oates called Hembd. 1644Digby Nat. Bodies v. §1. 33 The sides of it be ioyned successiuely to new and new partes of the rare body that giueth way vnto it. 1667Milton P.L. v. 676 New Laws thou seest impos'd. 1781Cowper Conversat. 724 Partakers of a new ethereal birth. 1835Thirlwall Greece I. 97 The Messenian legends of a new race of settlers. 1842New order [see order n. 16]. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. iii. I. 411 It was then that Ray made a new classification of birds and fishes. 1884F. Temple Relat. Relig. & Sci. v. (1885) 147 The New Testament contains not only a new morality, it contains also a new account of human nature. 1917Kipling Diversity of Creatures (1917) 333 He and his friends had helped the world a step nearer the Truth, the Dawn, and the New Order. 1936Discovery Sept. 295/1 The higher motives of a new order. 1940Times (Weekly ed.) 27 Nov. 16 Every effort of the Quisling Government to induce the Norwegian people to believe that the ‘new order’ in Norway means the real liberation of the people and the erection of a new and happier Norway, freed from party strife and class distinctions, seems to have fallen on very deaf ears. 1941,1944New order [see co-prosperity sphere]. 1944G. B. Shaw Everybody's Political What's What? viii. 67 There is much talk at present of a New Order to follow the war. 1960Whitaker's Almanack 1961 864/2 The New Franc, worth 100 old francs, came into use on Jan. 1, 1960, in metropolitan France and Algeria. 1964M. McLuhan Understanding Media i. vii. 65 The ability of the artist to sidestep the bully blow of new technology..is age-old. 1966J. G. Burke New Technol. & Human Values p. iii, This interaction between basic science—that is, pure research—and applied science..is what I have termed the new technology. 1966New Statesman 16 Dec. 896/3 The government has opted for a pound divided into 100 ‘new pennies’. 1966H. Yoxall Fashion of Life xxiv. 221 A menu gastronomique at twenty-five new francs. 1969Times 21 July p. i/3 In 1971 our coins will be ½p, 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, and 50p, each new penny equalling 2·4 of our present pennies. 1970A. Toffler Future Shock xix. 380 We frequently apply new technology stupidly and selfishly. 1971‘J. Fraser’ Death in Pheasant's Eye xxvi. 163 Game bird soup at twenty new pence a helping. 1972D. Lees Zodiac 47 I've won twenty-five thousand new francs—it's a fortune. 1973Listener 22 Feb. 258/3 If the Nazis considered it worth their while to be so subtle in their propaganda, surely we should be at least as discerning in our exposure of the New Order. 1981M. H. Aston in Lewis & Tagg Computers in Educ. 385 New technologies in both broadcast and P.T.T. networking systems offer an opportunity for authorities to provide a useful service..in the provision of educational software. 1984Guardian 22 Oct. 2/2 National NUJ and NGA officers are to meet on Wednesday in an attempt to agree a joint approach to the introduction of new technology in the provincial press. 1986Sunday Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 31 Aug. 15/2 Let us suppose that the new technology will relieve us of the drudgery and oppression of tedious and repetitive tasks. What will we do then with our time?
b. Of persons occupying a certain position or relationship. new bug (slang), a new boy. Cf. bug n.2 3 c. Also (rare) new tick. Cf. new boy, new girl.
c1000ælfric Exod. i. 8 Ᵹemang þam aras niwe cing ofer Egipta land. c1200Ormin 7149 Þatt Kalldisskenn genge, þatt cumenn wass inntill hiss land An new king forr to sekenn. a1225Leg. Kath. 2137 Mi neowe leofmon, Þe ich on wið luue leue. 1297R. Glouc. Chron. (Rolls) 7496 Þus, lo, þe englisse folc..come to a nywe louerd, þat more in riȝte was. c1386Chaucer Clerk's T. 785 Of your newe wyf, god..graunte yow wele. c1400Solomon's Bk. Wisdom 36 Þine olde frende þat þou fonded haste bileue þou for no newe. 1563Winȝet tr. Vincent. Lirin. Wks. (S.T.S.) II. 12 The peple..entering vnhappelie to be refreschit in the cumpanie of thir neu techearis. 1590Shakes. Mids. N. i. i. 219 To seeke new friends and strange companions. 1630Capt. Smith Wks. (Arb.) 953 New Lords, new lawes. 1665Pepys Diary 19 June, After dinner, to my little new goldsmith's. 1784Cowper Task ii. 110 The sylvan scene..finds out A new possessor, and survives the change. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola ix, She had beforehand felt an inward shrinking from a new guide. 1900Farmer Public School Word-Bk. 139 New-bug, a new boy. 1934‘G. Orwell’ Burmese Days v. 79 New-tick Flory does look rum. 1936,1960New bug [see bug n.2 3 c]. 1971‘M. Innes’ Awkward Lie v. 90 It mayn't be too bad an idea for the new bugs.
c. Of places: Different from that previously inhabited or frequented.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) III. 287 What profiȝteþ newe lond þere þe fliȝt fleeþ nouȝt [thee]? 1594Shakes. Rich. III, ii. ii. 46 That our swift-winged Soules may..follow him, To his new Kingdome. 1637Milton Lycidas 193 To morrow to fresh Woods, and Pastures new. 1667― P.L. iv. 184 A prowling Wolfe, Whom hunger drives to seek new haunt for prey. 1819Shelley Cenci v. i. 89 'Tis easy..for a country new..To change the honours of abandoned Rome.
d. Morally or spiritually changed.
1533Gau Richt Vay 31 Faith..quhilk renwis the hart and makis ane nev man. 1552Bk. Com. Prayer, Communion, Ye that do..intend to lead a new life following the Commandments of God. 1593G. Harvey New Letter Wks. (Grosart) I. 274 If vnfaynedly he hath stripped-of the snakes skinne, and put-on the new man. 1677Lady Chaworth in 12th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. V. 43 The D[uchess] of Portsmouth..they say will lead a new lyfe. a1770Jortin Serm. (1771) VII. i. 19 Christians upon their repentance become new creatures.
†e. Inclined to change or novelty. Obs. rare—1.
1500–20Dunbar Poems xlv. 13 Scho is so new of acquentance, The auld gais fra remembrance.
f. new thing (freq. with capital initials): something avant-garde or innovative; spec. a type of experimental jazz music of the 1960s dispensing with the normal harmonic and rhythmic framework. Also attrib. Hence new thinger. slang (orig. U.S.).
1928[see mucker v.2 b]. 1962Down Beat 12 Apr. 20 Coltrane's cohort Eric Dolphy, a member of that group of musicians who play what has been dubbed the ‘new thing’. 1966New Statesman 25 Mar. 438/3 ‘Pure feeling, pure expression, pure movement’ (I quote from Change/1, an extended manifesto of the New Thingers). 1966New Yorker 1 Oct. 214 The newest rock'n'roll groups are tuning in on the new thing. Ibid. 217 Charles Lloyd..wears new-thing clothes (an Army officer's jacket, tinted glasses, and bell-bottom trousers). 1967Melody Maker 28 Jan. 15 Near the end, Dolphy had adopted a determinedly ‘new thing’ attitude, becoming more and more anarchistic in his playing, especially on alto. 1970C. Major Dict. Afro-Amer. Slang 84 New thing, in jazz, an aggressive and original attitude and feeling..; in black writing, the ‘new thing’ trend is best indicated through..The New Black Poetry.
5. Used with the to distinguish the thing spoken of from something old, or already existing, of the same kind:
a. Of institutions, practices, methods, etc., with implication of some change in the nature or character of these. the New Humanism, in the U.S., a school of cultural thought based on the pragmatic philosophy of Dewey and others and emphasizing man's superiority to the natural order through the use of his reason; so New Humanist, a proponent of the New Humanism; the New Journalism (orig. U.S.), a style of journalism that developed during the 1960s, characterized by the use of subjective and fictional elements so as to elicit an emotional response from the reader; also without the and attrib.; hence New Journalist, a practitioner of this style of journalism; the New Kingdom, a name given collectively to the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Dynasties, which ruled Egypt from the sixteenth to the eleventh centuries b.c.; the new mathematics, a system of teaching mathematics to younger children in which an emphasis is laid on investigation and discovery on their part and topics are included that are not in the traditional school curriculum (as set theory, symbolic logic, and number systems); usu. abbreviated to the new maths (U.S. new math); also without the; the new psychology, a term denoting new and major fields of psychological investigation, such as experimental psychology in the 19th century and esp. those theories in the 20th century that recognize the irrational and unconscious motivations of human behaviour.
In a number of cases this use of the new has given rise to phrases with a special meaning or application; for examples see Church, connexion, husbandry, jet2, law, learning, light, model, police, style, Testament, woman, world. new journalism in quot. 1960 refers to ‘interpretative journalism’. In later editions of his book Hohenberg uses the term in the sense defined.
c900tr. Bæda's Hist. ii. iv. (Schipper) 127 Þære niwan cyricean, þe of Anᵹelcynne ᵹesomnad wæs. c950Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xxvi. 28 Ðis is forðon blod min ðære niua ᵹewitnessæ. 971Blickl. Hom. 163 Se godspellere wæs fæstnung æᵹþer ᵹe þære ealdan æ ᵹe þære niwan. c1175Lamb. Hom. 85 Þet boð þa twa laȝen þe alde and þe nowe. c1200Ormin 15159 All Godess lare off eȝȝþerr boc, Off þalde & off þe newe. a1300Cursor M. 12887 Þe ald testament hir-wit nu slakes, And sua þe neu bigining takes. 1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 3212 þey..haunte alle þe newe gyse. 1390Gower Conf. III. 6 Wher as I moste daunce and singe The hovedance and carolinge, Or forto go the newefot. 1523[Coverdale] (title) A Worke entytled of ye Olde God and the Newe, of the old faythe and the newe, of the olde doctryne and ye newe. 1590Sir J. Smyth Disc. Weapons 33 b, According to the newe fashion. 1731Tull Horse-Hoeing Husb. (1733) xix. 263 Of Differences between the Old and the New Husbandry. 1799Med. Jrnl. II. 214 The new inoculation was immediately introduced in London. 1833J. Holland Manuf. Metal II. 12 The latter, indeed, frequently became..victims to the new system. 1849Grote Greece ii. lxvii. VIII. 450 The gradual transition of..the Old Comedy into the Middle and New Comedy. 1898Sir E. Monson in Times 7 Dec. 5/1 We had not [then] heard so much of what is called the ‘new diplomacy’. 1899W. James Talks to Teachers ii. 20 In the light of some of the expectations that are abroad concerning the ‘new psychology’, it is instructive to read the unusually candid confession of its founder Wundt. 1920A. G. Tansley (title) The new psychology. Ibid. i. 9 Before we consider the developments of the New Psychology we must first glance at the causes of this failure of the older psychology... Not very many years ago the subject-matter of psychology was almost entirely limited to what is called the ‘content of consciousness’. 1928N. Foerster Amer. Criticism v. 236 A better way to consider the reconstruction proposed by the new humanism would be to examine its fundamental assumption. 1928C. Dawson Age of Gods viii. 173 The Late Minoan [corresponds] to the New Kingdom [in Egypt]. 1930Proc. Brit. Acad. XVI. 414 The ‘new psychology’ with its perhaps exaggerated stress on the hidden roots of our conscious convictions and purposes in the depths of our unconscious mind, had not yet brought all reasoning into suspicion of being merely the ‘rationalization’ of irrational impulses. 1930C. H. Grattan Critique of Humanism 6 In attacking the New Humanism, then, I am not casting aspersions upon the attitude which more than any other will lead to the good life. 1930K. Burke in Ibid. 169 The men whom the New Humanists in America recognize as their colleagues in France are advocates of Catholicism. 1942S. R. K. Glanville Legacy of Egypt 105 His tomb..bore witness to a period when the art of the New Kingdom had..reached its highest point. 1957Antiquity & Survival II. 122/1 One of the raids carried out by one of the New Kingdom Pharaohs along the Palestinian coast. 1958Time 3 Feb. 48/2 (heading) The new mathematics. 1958I. Adler (title) The new mathematics. [In the text referred to as modern mathematics.] [1960J. Hohenberg Professional Journalist xxiii. 322 The new journalism not only seeks to explain as well as to inform; it even dares to teach, to measure, to evaluate.] 1960Math. Teaching July 21 The self-styled Public Relations Officer for the New Mathematics..declared himself the herald of New Mathematics. 1961A. H. Gardiner Egypt of the Pharaohs iii. 40 It is a matter of some surprise that the much less pleasing sand⁓stone should have supplanted it [sc. limestone] from the New Kingdom (c. 1500 b.c.) onwards. 1963J. S. Bruner in Z. P. Dienes Exper. Study of Math.-Learning p. xii, In recent years there has been much misguided debate about the introduction of ‘the new mathematics’ into the schools. 1965R. Wellek Hist. Mod. Criticism IV. 59 His theory of commonplaces..is practically the same as that of the American new humanists. 1966Meyer & Hanlon (title) Fun with the new math. 1967Punch 8 Mar. 332/1 If we realised..how much the New Maths derived from a foreign professor attending to the babbling of infants.. our suspicions would be even deeper and darker. 1969Antioch Rev. Spring 24 Such truth doesn't belong to the new journalism; the mode is too uniformly blackish and self-accusatory. 1970T. Wolfe in Writer's Digest Jan. 32/2 New Journalism is the use by people writing nonfiction of techniques which heretofore had been thought of as confined to the novel or to the short story. 1970in Ibid. 33/2, I don't think Tom Wolfe started as a New Journalist; I don't think Gay Talese started as a New Journalist. I think they started as marvelously original writers. 1971R. A. Parker in J. R. Harris Legacy of Egypt (ed. 2) i. 22 A papyrus known as the Turin Canon..listed the kings of Egypt from the earliest dynasties down to the end of the Hyksos period, that is just prior to the New Kingdom. 1972Village Voice (N.Y.) 1 June 22/3, I read several thousand words of the New Journalism's praise of itself. 1973Sci. Amer. Apr. 101/1 The triumph of the ‘new math’ in the elementary schools of America during the past decade. 1973H. Whitney in E. Choat Preschool & Primary Math. 9 After centuries with little change in the mathematics curriculum in schools, we find ourselves in an era of ‘new maths’, typified by the acquisition of concepts. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 1 May 5/2 It was pretty awful stuff,..representative..of a lot of ‘new’ journalism these days. 1977Rolling Stone 7 Apr. 87/2 Thomas' new-journalism prose is often so slick as to give the impression he's told you all you need to know. 1984Christian Science Monitor 4 Dec. 48/1 The new journalism..is no longer new. 1986Ibid. 9 May 23/3 Write your novel and call it a memoir. What with historians writing like novelists and novelists writing like historians—and New Journalists writing like both—who can tell the difference?
b. Of things, places, or persons.
c893K. ælfred Oros. iv. vi. 176 Com Hasterbal se niwa cyning of Cartainum. 971Blickl. Hom. 163 Se niwa eorendel [wæs] Sanctus Iohannes. 1154O.E. Chron. (Laud MS.) an. 1137 Martin abbot..brohte heom into þe neuuæ mynstre on S. Petres mæsse dæi. 1362Langl. P. Pl. A. v. 171 Clement þe Cobelere caste of his cloke, And atte newe Feire he leyde hire to sulle. c1400Chron. R. Glouc. (Rolls) 9220 (MS. B), Þe king..ladde him to þe newe worc, to a uayr castel & god. c1470Gregory's Chron. (Camden) 223 That fals Duke of Somersett .. stale owte of Walys .. towarde the Newecastelle. c1489Caxton Sonnes of Aymon iii. 89 Whan the newe tyme shall be come. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 167 In this yere was..ended the newe worke of the Church of Westminster, to the ende of the Quire. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, ii. i. 3 Charles waine is ouer the new Chimney. 1679Bedloe Popish Plot Ep. a j b, To fire the Water-Houses, and get the New River-Water stopt, if they can. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) VII. 272 The remainder of the old aliment will be seen mixing with the new. 1826in E. H. Barker Parriana (1828) I. 380 It was at the time when the new jail was being built. 1848R. I. Wilberforce Doctr. Incarnation iii. (1852) 48 The new Adam was..the type and pattern of the renewed..creation.
(b) new entry: a recruit; collect., persons who have recently qualified or become eligible to do something. Also transf. and attrib.
1919W. Lang Sea Lawyer's Log 5 Approaching him with diffidence our spokesman modestly announced us as ‘new entries’—the Navy does not deal in ‘recruits’. 1958Listener 20 Nov. 812/1 If the electoral behaviour of the new entry [of voters] differs from that of those who have joined the great majority, there will be a swing one way or the other in consequence. 1962Economist 18 Aug. 623/3 Competition seems to have prevented prices from ever going near their new-entry ceiling.
c. In names of cities or countries. (Without the.)
1500–20Dunbar Poems lxxxviii. 10 Citie that some tyme cleped was New Troy. 1535Coverdale Rev. xxi. 2 I Ihon sawe that holy cite newe Ierusalem come downe from God out of heauen. 1604E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies vii. ii. 498 Where now they have discovered a kingdome they call New Mexico. 1687A. Lovell tr. Bergerac's Com. Hist. 8 It was in New-France. 1719W. Wood Surv. Trade 280 They cannot Trade into the.. South West Coast of New-Spain. 1761Charac. in Ann. Reg. 10/1 There are a greater number of noblesse in New France than in all the other colonies put together. 1833Penny Cycl. I. 438/1 These concussions, which are very common about New Madrid, are felt..from New Orleans to the mouth of the Missouri.
d. In names of inhabitants of countries, provinces, etc. whose names include the word New. Cf. New Englander, Newfoundlander, New Mexican, New Zealander.
1874C. M. Yonge Life J. C. Patteson I. viii. 214 The little New Caledonian remained at Taurarua. 1890W. A. Foster in R. Reid Canadian Style (1973) ii. 40 All we need is a sentiment which shall make us feel not as Ontarions or Quebeckers, Nova Scotians or New Brunswickers, but as Canadians proud of our country as a whole. 1911Encycl. Brit. XIX. 469/1 Many New Caledonians having black skins and woolly hair with Polynesian superiority of limb. 1957Ibid. XVI. 696/2 The new⁓comers spoke languages of the Austronesian..family, which were in time adopted by most of the coastal New Guineans. 1973Country Life 13 Sept. 745/1 Shell jewellery still valued for its magical powers by the New Guineans.
II.
6. a. Of recent origin or growth; that has not as yet existed long; † young. Also, of events or points in time: Recent, not long ago. Also used of colour names.
c825Vesp. Psalter lxviii. 32 Licað gode ofer caelf niowe. c888K. ælfred Boeth. xxv, Ᵹif..heo blodes onbiriᵹð, heo forᵹit sona hire niwan taman. c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 292 Ȝenim þone neowran wyrttruman, delf up. c1290St. Michael 451 in S.E. Leg. I. 312 Ase man may bi þe Mone i-seo, þe ȝwyle heo is neowe riȝt. 13..Guy Warw. (A.) 739 Bot on þatow [hast] newe dobing & art cleped kniȝt wiþ-outen lesing. a1366Chaucer Rom. Rose 856 She semede lyk a rose newe Of colour. a1400–50Alexander 1460 For he had nite him a nerand noȝt bot o new time. 1507Justes May & June 31 in Hazl. E.P.P. II. 122 At the felde ende was pyght..A pauyllyon on the grasse fresshe and nue. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. 587 Howe is it thus, in oure newe knyght⁓hode, that [etc.]? 1611Shakes. Cymb. ii. iii. 46 The Exile of her Minion is too new, She hath not yet forgot him. 1785Phillips Treat. Inland Nav. 25 Rival Nations, especially the new States of America. 1845T. Milner Gallery Nat. 642 The new red sand stone and carboniferous systems in Leicestershire. 1865Tylor Early Hist. Man. 17 The two-handed or French alphabet, generally used in England, is of newer date. 1897Sears, Roebuck Catal. 360/3 Colors for Artists... Neutral Tint, New Blue, Olive Lake. Ibid. 361/1 Water Colors... Dark Green, New Rose, Flesh, New Violet. 1927[see dawn n. 1 b]. 1948F. A. Staples Watercolor Painting iv. 49 New Blue, bright blue transparent.
b. Of articles of food or drink: Freshly made, produced, or grown; not yet old or stale; belonging to the fresh crop or growth.
c950Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. ix. 17 Ne sendas win niwe in byttum aldum. 1362Langl. P. Pl. A. vii. 287 Til hit to heruest hiȝede þat newe corn com to chepynge. a1400Pistill of Susan 99 With wardons winlich and walshe notes newe. c1440Promp. Parv. 360/2 Nwe ale, celia. c1560A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) v. 31 Butter, new cheis, and beir in May. 1590Shakes. Mids. N. iv. i. 40, I haue a venturous Fairy, That shall..fetch thee new Nuts. 1667Milton P.L. ix. 1008 As with new Wine intoxicated both They swim in mirth. a1756Eliza Heywood New Present (1771) 133 Lay these into a stewpan with some new-milk. 1819Shelley Cyclops 188 Is The new cheese pressed into the bulrush baskets? 1884E. P. Roe in Harper's Mag. Aug. 452/2 New potatoes, dug for the first time that day.
c. Recently made; not yet used or worn; still unimpaired by use.
c950Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xxvii. 60 [He] sette ðæt in byrᵹenne his niwe. Ibid. Luke v. 36 Ne aeniᵹ þæt esceapa from woedo niuue onsendeð on ᵹewedo ald. c1205Lay. 7394 Þeos [scipen] weoren al neowe stronge & wel itreowe. a1300Cursor M. 20214 A neu smock scho did hir on. 1382Wyclif Judg. xvi. 11 If I were boundun with newe coordis, the whiche weren not ȝit in werk, I shal be feble. c1462Wright's Chaste Wife 117 Felowe, where hadyst þou þis hatte That ys so feyre and newe? 1538–[see broom n. 3]. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. ii. v. §39 Though they swept clean at the first, as new Besomes. 1703Moxon Mech. Exerc. 242 They choose the newest, to wit, that which is newly drawn out of the Kiln. 1775Johnson Let. to Mrs. Thrale 22 May, The key is the newest of those two that have the wards channelled. 1837Dickens Pickw. xiv, A large bare-looking room, the furniture of which had no doubt been better when it was newer.
d. Now first used for some purpose.
1666H. Stubbe Mirac. Conformist 19 The Brewers either pover the same or new in again to fill up the Barrel. 1693Evelyn De la Quint. Compl. Gard. I. 27 [By] New Earth..I mean Earth never having seen the Sun... It is certain that this New Soil possesses..all the first Salt, which was given it at..the Creation.
e. Recently inhabited or settled.
1817J. Bradbury Trav. Amer. 331 In the early settlements..of new country, its progress in improvements is slow. 1823J. F. Cooper Pioneers viii, It was a term in common use throughout the new parts of the state. 1871Schele de Vere Americanisms 176 If he..must go to what is called New Lands, he has to be careful in his selection.
f. Recently formed; spec. (see quot. 1958): said of deposits of ice or snow, esp. in polar regions.
1860Jrnl. R. Dublin Soc. Jan. 374, I have before stated that we were frozen in on the 7th of September, 1857; the new ice then forming around us was of specific gravity 1·0235 (30°). 1918Finch & Hawks Water in Nature vi. 126 Nansen has given us particulars of thickness attained by the ice of the Polar seas... ‘This formation of new ice on the underside was owing to the layer of fresh water which, by reason of the surface thaw on the ice, now floated above the cold, salt water.’ 1935Handbk. Weather, Currents & Ice, for Seamen (Meteorol. Office) vii. 102 Between the Arctic Pack and the fast ice is a moving belt consisting partly of new ice and partly of broken ice from the pack and from the fast ice. 1958Armstrong & Roberts Illustr. Ice Gloss. 94 New snow, a recent snow deposit in which the original form of the ice crystals can be recognized; usually the daily new snowfall, measured in the morning. 1966T. Armstrong et al. Illustr. Gloss. Snow & Ice 28 New ice, a general term for floating ice recently formed. It includes frazil ice, grease ice, slush, shuga, ice rind, milas and pancake ice.
7. Having or retaining the qualities of a fresh or recent thing; showing no sign of decline or decay. In later use esp. ever new.
c1220Bestiary 76 Ðer he wurdeð heil & sund, & cumeð ut al newe. c1250Hymn to Virgin in Trin. Coll. Hom. App. 257 Þi loue is euer iliche neowe. a1300Cursor M. 16557 Þis tre..þai fand..als neu and fress als it on stouen ware. c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 8688 Ȝour mercy schal hem be newe. 1496Fysshynge w. Angle (1883) 32 As longe as they ben quycke & newe they ben fyne. 1610Shakes. Temp. ii. ii. 28 A very ancient and fish⁓like smell; a kinde of not of the newest poore-Iohn. 1626Bacon Sylva (J.), Men, after long emaciating diets, wax plump, fat, and almost new. 1667Milton P.L. v. 19 Heav'ns last best gift, my ever new delight. 1711Pope Temp. Fame 51 These ever new, nor subject to decays, Spread, and grow brighter. 1781Cowper Charity 326 All..to pursue Still prompt him, with a pleasure always new. 1877M. Arnold Switzerland, Parting, To thee only God granted A heart ever new.
8. a. Having but recently come into a certain state, position, or relationship. Cf. New Australian (Australian n. 2 b).
new chum: see chum n.1
c900tr. Bæda's Hist. iii. xxii. (Schipper) 295 Swa swiþe swa þa niwan cristenan ða ᵹyt hit niman mihton. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VII. 263 As he þat was a newe man..and knewe nouȝt þe customs and þe usages of Engelond. 1422tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. 180 So is hit..of new officers, that like ben to newe hungri flies. c1489Caxton Sonnes of Aymon ii. 65 So departed the newe knyghtes. a1533Ld. Berners Huon lxii. 217 The new brydes lay togyther in grete pleasure all that nyght. 1590Sir J. Smyth Disc. Weapons 47 b, The shot of them..scare newe soldiors and nouices of warre. 1665J. Webb Stone-Heng (1725) 63 The Evidence of our Claim shall be well attested, not by New-men, but such as..speak of their own Knowledge. 1714Mandeville Fable Bees (1723) 314 If such a New-Beginner has but a little Pride..he is soon mortify'd in the Vestry. 1807Southey Lett. from England II. xxix. 27 The heretical sects in this country{ddd}form a curious list! Arminians, Socinians, Baxterians, Presbyterians, New Americans, Sabellians, [etc.]. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. vi. II. 20 James's parliament contained a most unusual proportion of new members. a1860Alb. Smith Med. Student (1861) 14 The new man does not enter much into society. 1907H. A. Kennedy (title) New Canada and the New Canadians. 1919Ladies' Home Jrnl. Sept. 35 The New Americans. 1939J. M. Gibbon Canadian Mosaic ix. 231 Anthology of verse written by New Canadians. 1940Chatelaine Jan. 40/1 Native-born and new Canadians work together for the nation's good. 1965Listener 10 June 860/2 The idealist who saw his vision of the New Man shattered by harsh reality. 1970Guardian 14 Apr. 11/5 The machines..are obviously the New Men, the ultimate revolutionaries. 1970Toronto Daily Star 24 Sept. 7/6 If New Canadians prefer to learn English from Eaton's or Simpson's catalogue, there must be something wrong?
b. Const. to a thing.
1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 30 New to the Pleasures of their native Spring. 1725Pope Odyss. iv. 861 Twelve young mules..New to the plough, unpractis'd in the trace. 1853‘C. Bede’ Verdant Green xi, Mr. Verdant Green was quite new to round bowling. 1884Times (weekly ed.) 10 Oct. 3/3 The Government was new to office.
c. Fresh from some place, state, or operation.
1700Dryden To Duchess of Ormond 102 Nor dare we trust so soft a messenger, New from her sickness, to that northern air. 1833Tennyson Dream Fair Women 60 Branches fledged with clearest green, New from its silken sheath. 1896Pall Mall Mag. Nov. 316 It was a Thursday and I was new from the razor.
d. spec. new rich: in recent use, common as a translation of the French nouveaux riches, persons who have recently acquired wealth. Also as adj. Hence new poor, recently impoverished persons; new money, a fortune recently acquired, funds recently raised; so by metonymy, the new rich.
1886Harper's Mag. Oct. 795/2 There are..the sons of the ‘new rich’ who are like men drunk with new wine. 1920Punch 6 Oct. 279 Exhausted War Profiteer. ‘Deer forests for the ‘idle rich’ be blowed! The ‘new poor’ can 'ave 'em for me.’ 1923‘B. M. Bower’ Parowan Bonanza xiii. 157 You've never seen me look New-rich, have you, Bill? 1926A. Bennett Lord Raingo i. xxxv. 165 He had demonstrated publicly..that he belonged to the type of the new rich. 1942H. C. Bailey Dead Man's Shoes x. 46 Not a drop of fizz for you. I am the new poor and proud of the title. 1958New Statesman 23 Aug. 222/2 How typical is his new-rich business man, seen leaving an elaborate Tudoresque house..who seemed genuinely to feel no animosity either towards the class to which his father, a jobbing gardener, had belonged or towards the class in which, economically at least, he now finds himself. 1961‘W. Haggard’ Arena iii. 25 They had most of the new money: all the new men used them, the takeover boys, the property men. 1967M. Procter Exercise Hoodwink xvii. 119 He moves with a pricey crowd, though I wouldn't call 'em classy. Small business people. New money. 1969Triumph (U.S.) Mar. 25/1 The new poor, the misplaced workers, who are a by-product of our technology. 1970Daily Tel. 2 June 20/3 ‘New money’ raised in the United Kingdom during May by the issue of marketable securities was {pstlg}32 million. 1973R. Ludlum Matlock Paper xvi. 139 The blooded first families..migrated just a little west to avoid the new rich. 1975Daily Tel. 30 Aug. 13/4 The amount of new money raised in August at {pstlg}120·1 million was the lowest since last January.
9. That has just recently risen to distinction or notice; not belonging to a noted family.
1611B. Jonson Catiline iii. i, A new man, as I am styled in Rome, Whom you have dignified. 1670G. H. Hist. Cardinals ii. ii. 156 Lorenzo Raggi..is descended of a new Family in Genoa. 1709Swift Adv. Relig. Wks. 1755 II. i. 106 Nine in ten..are younger brothers, or new men. 1741Middleton Cicero (1742) I. i. 4 A New Man, not that his Family was new or ignoble. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. i. I. 38 There were new men who bore the highest titles. 1890Spectator 25 Jan., A family that is really ‘new’ is generally delighted to be mistaken for an old family. 1903Mrs. H. Ward Lady Rose's Daughter xiv. 230 He was a good deal of a politician, himself a ‘new man’, and on the side of ‘new men’. 1936M. Mitchell Gone with Wind iii. 52 Gerald was a ‘new man’, despite his nearly ten years' residence. 1943D. W. Brogan English People iii. 81 Lord Reading was the first Marquess of Reading, a ‘new man’. 1962Spectator 30 Mar. 392 It strikes fear, not into the manual worker so much as into the hearts of the new men.
III. 10. Comb. a. new-old, both new and old through revival, repair, or imitation. Also, † new-new, very new.
1592G. Harvey Four Lett. iv. Wks. (Grosart) I. 233 Our new-new writers, the Loadstones of the Presse. 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacræ i. vi. §5 Thus Annius puts a good face on his new-old Authors. 1798C. Smith Yng. Philos. II. 34 Hopes were given my father that Lord and Lady Daventry would..stay a fortnight with him at his new-old castle. 1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 229 The same pot..with which he furbished up our new-old pony⁓chaise. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. xxxv, As for most of your new-old building [etc.]. 1926D. H. Lawrence Plumed Serpent xvii. 279 They seized upon the new-old thrill, with a certain fear, and joy, and relief. 1932H. Crane Let. 31 Mar. (1965) 405 An environment not half so strange and distractingly new-old curious as this. 1961Guardian 14 June 10/6 These new-old problems that face our daughters.
b. With substantives, forming attributive compounds, as new-charter man, etc. new-face = modern-face(d) adjs. (modern a. 2 g); new time: in the Stock Exchange: of dealings, having the settlement postponed to the next settling-day; of prices, quoted for the next settling-day before the previous settlement is completed; also in more general contexts; new wheat disease: a pyelonephritis affecting young poultry, possibly caused by a virus; also called blue comb (disease) (blue a. 13) or pullet disease (pullet 3).
Some of these expressions also occur in non-attrib. contexts.
1684Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) I. 307 A contest between the old charter men and the *new charter men.
1900H. Hart Cent. Typogr. 120 These are the first examples of what are called nowadays ‘*new-face’ types.
1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing 37 There are two sorts of Presses in use, viz. the old fashion and the *new fashion. 1729Swift Direct. Serv., Footman Wks. 1751 XIV. 45 Learn all the new-fashion Words.
1899S. Butler Shaks. Sonn. 97 A sub-didactic, *new-leaf, good-resolution tone.
1898Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 756 Bouillaud classified pericardial friction sounds as grazing, *new leather sound, and grating.
1685Dryden Theocritus i. Misc. II. 358 A dainty Kid, and a large *New-milk Cheese.
a1910‘Mark Twain’ Autobiogr. (1924) I. 198 Any other old-time or *new-time palace on the continent of Europe. 1912Century Mag. Jan. 476 Open Letters... On the New⁓time Negro. 1922New-time [see carry-over]. 1927Daily Express 27 Sept. 101/1 The price for ‘new time’ was about 15s. 6d., compared with a making up price of 14s. Ibid. 10/3 The ‘new time’ price at one time touched the new record of 4½. 1964Financial Times 25 Feb. 17/1 First Dealings... ‘New time’ dealings may take place two business days earlier.
1887Pall Mall G. 1 Jan. 2/1 All naval Powers have provided their ships with..*new-type guns.
1950*New wheat disease [see blue comb (disease) s.v. blue a. 13]. 1957L. Robinson Mod. Poultry Husbandry (ed. 4) xx. 677 Since outbreaks usually occur in late summer and autumn, the disease has been called ‘New Wheat disease’. There is no evidence, however, that new wheat is responsible.
1847Tennyson Princ. iv. 466 Clamour grew As of a *new-world Babel. 1866Howells Venet. Life xi. 169, I doubt if even these would save them from the new-world pigs. 1886W. J. Tucker E. Europe 141 Hair-brained, new-world notions of independence.
c. In derivatives of the type new-æraist, new-birthite, new-schoolish, etc.
1872Bagehot Physics & Pol. (1876) 193 *New æraists, who want their new æra started forthwith.
1810Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1839) IV. 342 The very term by which the German *New-Birthites express it is enough to give one goose-flesh.
1844T. Parker in Weiss Life & Corr. I. 244 Here they concoct one of the best journals in Germany. It is Hegelian and *new-schoolish of course.
1838Jackson tr. Krummacher's Elisha ix. 201 Many other things are *New Testamental and remind us of the Gospel.
1851Lowell Lett. I. 212 Genoa,—a very fit place for us. *New-Worlders to land at.
1893Patmore Religio Poetæ 206 Perhaps the unkindest hit in her book is that in which she laughs at the *New-Worldling.
d. new style: in Chronology, see style n. 27; gen., forming attributive compounds.
1914‘I. Hay’ Lighter Side School Life vii. 193 The new⁓style parent breaks right away from tradition—kicks over the traces, in fact. 1937B. H. L. Hart Europe in Arms iii. 26 These new-style formations were not shown to the foreign officers and military publicists. 1961Times 18 May 19/4 The new-style Arab. 1965New Statesman 7 May 707/2 Such a department, like the rest of a new-style Transport House, would have to have a long-term career structure.
B. absol. or as n.
1. a. That which is new.
c888K. ælfred Boeth. vii. §2 Wenst þu þæt hit hwæt niwes sie..? a900Wærferth tr. Gregory's Dial. 4 Ᵹelamp þe aht niwes [v.r. æniᵹ þing niwes]? c1000Ags. Gosp. Luke v. 36 Elles þæt niwe slit, & se niwa scyp ne hylpð þam eal⁓dan. c1250Gen. & Ex. 250 Ðis dai was forð in reste wrogt, Ilc kinde newes ear was brog[t]. 13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 1407 [They agreed] hor cheuysaunce to chaunge, What newez so þay nome, at naȝt quen þay metten.
1601Weever Mirr. Mart. A 3 b, Man's memorie, with new, forgets the old; One tale is good, untill anothers told. 1819Shelley Peter Bell 3rd v. ii, All things he seemed to understand, Of old or new. 1875Whitney Life Lang. 266 The actual creation of the new in speech is..very rare. 1881Jowett Thucyd. I. 45 As in the arts, so also in politics, the new must always prevail over the old.
b. A new thing. rare.
c1470Harding Chron. lxxxviii. xi, We wyll not chaunge for your doctrine ne lore, There shall no newe emong vs been abused. 1887Meredith Ballads & P. 147 An unborn New, To make the plagues afflicting us things past.
2. the new of the moon, the time at which the moon is new (see new moon). Now rare.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. lviii. (Bodl. MS.), Greete scarsete þerof in þe new of þe mone. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. §68 Whether it were gette in the newe of the mone or in the olde of the mone. 1572J. Bossewell Armorie ii. 48 Apes..are merye, and reioice at the newe of the moone. 1610Markham Masterp. ii. civ. 388 Shooe him in the new of the moone. 1682Riders Brit. Merlin Jan., Set all kind of..Fruit-trees in the New of the Moon. 1728Pemberton Newton's Philos. 200 The moon would be nearer the earth at the new and full, than in the quarters. 1805in Kittredge Old Farmer's Almanack (1904) 313 Apple trees..should be set out in the new of the moon.
†3.
a. for, of or on the new, anew, afresh. Obs.
c1395Plowman's T. 926 Gaye gownes, That mot be shape for the newe. 1399Langl. Rich. Redeles iii. 161 Yt was y-sent sone to shape of the newe. 1450Paston Lett. I. 172, I pray you that the said maters may be called uppon of the new. 1535Coverdale 2 Sam. xxiv. 1 The Lorde was wroth⁓fully displeased of y⊇ new agaynst Israel.
†b. on the new, something novel. Obs. rare—1.
c1485Digby Plays (1882) i. 338 Thu make me a knyght, that were on the newe!
4. of new.
†a. Of late, recently; newly. Obs.
1375Barbour Bruce xiv. 92 The castell wele wes stuffit then Of-new with wittale and vith men. c1386Chaucer Clerk's T. 882 Ther can no man..ben half so trewe As wommen been, but it be falle of-newe. c1470Henry Wallace viii. 585 The men he tuk, that come till hym off new, Gydys to be. 1579Fenton Guicciard. 736 Regiments of Italians leavyed of newe. 1609Skene Reg. Maj. i. 118 b, Qvha is made of new the Kings Burges..sall sweare to be..trew to the King. 1669R. Montagu in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) I. 444 The Suisses..are of new strictlier engaged, and more in the French interest than ever. 1728[see anew adv. 3].
b. Afresh, over again. Now rare.
Also rarely on new: see anew adv. 1 γ.
1413Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton) i. xvi. (1859) 17 Here ne may ther none aduocate be procured of newe. 1490Caxton Eneydos lv. 151 The chyeff capytaynes..beganne the medle and the crye of newe. 1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 67 By this meanes thei wer reconciled of newe. 1651tr. De-las-Coveras' Don Fenise 270 He was much satisfied, and of new obliged to love me. a1715Burnet Own Time i. (1724) I. 6 Lasting feuds and animosities, which upon every turn are apt to ferment and to break out of new. 1752J. Louthian Form of Process (ed. 2) 79 A Warrant obtained for imprisoning him of new. 1827Scott Napoleon lxix, His attention was of new summoned. 1865[see anew adv. 1 α].
†c. By new arrangement, appointment, etc.; with some change or alteration. Obs.
c1400Rom. Rose 5169 Either must I love or hate. And if I hate men of newe [etc.]. 1485Rolls of Parlt. VI. 304/1 Suche Assignements as oure said Soveraine Lord shall of newe make and appointe. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. clxi. 197 This ordynaunce they had made of newe, that the frenchmen knewe nat of. c1543–82[see anew adv. 4]. 1658W. Burton Itin. Anton. 164 Then it was of new called Augusta.
†d. Shortly, soon. Obs. rare—1.
c1500Lancelot 955 [G]if me leif to ga To the assemble, wich sal be of new.
5. A naval cadet during his first term in a training-ship.
1909J. R. Ware Passing Eng. 181/2 New (Britannia training ship), fresh arrival, last addition. Used in the plural. 1914‘Bartimeus’ Naval Occasions ix. 63 The path of the ‘New’ in those days was by no means strewn with roses. 1953J. Masefield Conway (rev. ed.) iv. 224 The ‘News’ very rarely ventured into the upper room. 1962Granville Dict. Sailors' Slang 81/1 New!, HMS Britannia's equivalent of the public school's ‘Fag!’
▸ New Stone Age n. (also with lower-case initials) Archaeol. the Neolithic period.
[1869Duke of Argyll Primeval Man iv. 59 They [sc. archaeologists] talk of an Old Stone Age (Palæolithic), and of a Newer Stone Age (Neolithic). ]1870Harper's Mag. May 931/1 Three epochs are traced by M. Reboux; that of the cave bear, or early stone age; the middle stone age, or the reindeer period; and the *new stone age, or the period of the dolmens. 1949A. E. Trueman Geol. & Scenery Eng. & Wales viii. 113 In the case of the Hampshire basin the whole river system has been drowned under the sea, as a result of the lowering of the level of the land or rise of sea-level in relatively recent times (continuing to the New Stone Age). 2003Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 20 June 4 The discovery of the Orkney structures could greatly contribute to knowledge of the Neolithic, or New Stone Age, period.
▸ new variant CJD n. Med. (in full new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease) = variant CJD n. at variant adj. and n. Additions.
[1996Brit. Med. Jrnl. 30 Mar. 795 (title) BSE linked to a new variant of CJD in humans.] 1996Lancet 5 Oct. 955 (title) Cerebrospinal-fluid test for *new-variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. 1997Guardian 1 May i. 3/6 Mice in London have been dosed with brains from BSE cattle to see if they develop the human version known as new variant CJD. 1999Express 10 June 23/2 Already 40 people have died from new-variant CJD.
▪ III. † new, v. Obs.
Forms: 1–2 niwian, (1 neowian), 3 niwe; 4–6 newe, (4 neu, 5 neewe, nwyn, Sc. nev), 5–6 new.
[OE. níwian, f. níwe new a., = MDu. nuwen (Du. -nieuwen), OS. niwian (nigean), MLG. nygen, OHG. niwôn (MHG. niuwen, niwen, G. -neuen), ON. (endr)nýja, Goth. (ana)niujan.]
1. trans. To renew, to make new.
Common in 14–15th c. in a variety of contexts.
a900Cynewulf Elene 940 (Gr.), Ne þearft ðu swa swiðe..sar niwiᵹan & sæce ræran. c1000Sax. Leechd. I. 192 Swa þæt ðu þeah æᵹhwylce dæᵹ þone drenc niwie. a1122O.E. Chron. (Laud MS.) an. 1064 He niwade þær Cnutes laᵹe. c1220Bestiary 55 Kiðen i wille ðe ernes kinde,..wu he neweð his ȝuðhede. a1300Cursor M. 23399 He sal neu vr bodis slike, þai sal be till his aun like. c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. I. 49 Al þe chirche of men and aungels is newid bi þe Incarnacioun. a1450Myrc 642 Thow moste chawnge þyn oyle also Þat þey mowe be newed bo. 1503in Trans. Roy. Hist. Soc. (1902) 153 The seyd Walter newed a pond of his. a1555Hutchinson Three Serm. ii. Wks. (Parker Soc.) 251 The sacraments also be newed and changed.
refl.c1220Bestiary 123 Neddre is te name: ðus he him neweð.
2. intr. To become new again, renew itself.
a1300Cursor M. 20356 Now me neus al mi wa. 13..Propr. Sanct. (Vernon MS.) in Herrig Archiv LXXXI. 83/2 But greine of whete in eorþe dye, hit schal not newe. c1400tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 73 Veyr ys hoot and moyst,..And þerynne newys þe blood. a1500Chaucer's Dreme C.'s Wks. (1561) 242 Euery day her beaute newed.
b. Used of the yearly renewal of produce or increase of stock.
a1400Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS. xxxvii. 524 [Let a man] of al þat neweþ him be ȝere do his tiþinge. c1460Towneley Myst. vi. 57 Of all that newes me rightwys tend shall I gif the. 1496Festial (W. de W.) Sentence General, Tythes..of al maner bestis that are newyng. Ibid., Of hay also often as it newes.
c. To fall (constantly) to (one).
1399Langl. Rich. Redeles iv. 6 Ne for-feyturis fele þat felle in his daies, Ne þe nownagis þat newed him euere.
Hence † newed ppl. a. Obs. rare.
a1440Found. St. Bartholomew's (E.E.T.S.) 31 Of them that runne to religione with an ynwarde newydde deuocyone.
▪ IV. new, adv.|njuː|
Forms: 1 niwe, 3–6 newe, (5 neewe), 4 neu, 5– new.
[OE. níwe, f. the adj.]
†I. In ordinary adverbial uses. Now Obs.
1. Newly, recently, lately.
971Blickl. Hom. 247 Forþon þe we niwe syndon to þissum ᵹeleafan ᵹedon. 1307Elegy Edw. I, i, Herkneth to my song, Of duel that Deth hath diht us newe. c1386Chaucer Merch. T. 582 His berd..sharp as brere, For he was shave al newe in his manere. c1440Alph. Tales 202 He saw a pope at hight Benett, att wold new be dede. c1470Henry Wallace vi. 134 ‘Quhy, schir’, he said, ‘come yhe nocht new our se?’ 1562Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1874) 92 A man from a fever recovered new His greedy appetite could not eschew. 1595Shakes. John iii. i. 233 Euen before this truce, but new before.
2. a. Anew, afresh, over again.
1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 3029 Gode lawes þat were aleyd, nywe he let make. a1300Cursor M. 26921 Sin þis sinn was neuer forgiuen, nedinges most it neu be scriuen. c1385Chaucer L.G.W. Prol. 103 My bisy goost, that thursteth alwey newe To seen this flour. c1430Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1903) 195 Þou haste slayn þi lord, And euery day þou woundist me newe. c1470Henry Wallace xi. 1224 His fatell hour I will nocht fenȝe new. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. §126 They must nedes be dryuen newe and hardened agayne. 1599Shakes. Hen. V, iv. i. 311, I Richards body haue interred new. 1615Bedwell Moham. Impost. i. §18 This statute was commanded new againe.
b. new and new, ever anew, over and over.
c1374Chaucer Troylus iii. 116 Pandare weep..And poked ever his nece newe and newe. c1430Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 638 Hir sorow encresed new and new. a1529Skelton P. Sparowe 896 She floryssheth new and new In bewte and vertew. a1542Wyatt Poet. Wks. (1858) 191 Chastisings..that new and new begin With thousand fears the heart to strain and bind.
II. Preceding, and closely connected (in later use hyphened) with, the qualified word.
3. With pa. pples. used attributively, in the sense of ‘Newly, recently, freshly’.
Common only after 1550, and esp. after Shakespeare, who has about a score of examples, as new-crowned, new-dated, new-delivered, new-enkindled, new-healed, etc. In later use the number of such combs. is practically unlimited; a large collection from various writers is given in Jodrell's dictionary. Those which have most frequently been employed will be found here in their alphabetical places as main words.
In OE. a few combs. of this type appear with the bare adj. stem níw-, níᵹ-, ní-, as níwtyrwyd new-tarred, ní(w)cealct new-chalked, níᵹbacen, new-baked; with these compare the numerous ON. forms in ný-, as nýfundiun, -gefinn, -tekinn, etc.
a. With the pa. pples. of trans. verbs, as new-accepted, new-adopted, new-baked, new-bought, new-crowned, new-cut, new-dated, new-dropped, new-engendered, new-fulfilled, new-gnarled, new nurtured, new-scored, new-skeined, new-washed, etc.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xl. (Ninian) 406 Caile & leikis faire..cummyne of nev sawine seide. 1501Douglas Pal. Hon. Prol. vii, The purgit air with new engendrit heit. 1515Barclay Egloges iv, Suche other newe forged Muses nine. 1570T. Norton tr. Nowel's Catech. (1853) 114 Other⁓wise we should daily forge ourselves new-feigned religions. 1620Venner Via Recta vii. 115 The ripe and new-gathered Mulberries. 1684T. Burnet The. Earth i. 263 When he came to act upon this new-erected stage. 1726Pope Odyss. xvii. 66 My new-accepted guest I haste to find. 1775S. J. Pratt Liberal Opin. xxvii. (1783) I. 177 Discovering a fat new-shorn pate. 1793W. Blake Visions Daughters Albion in Compl. Writings (1972) 191 The new wash'd lamb ting'd with the village smoke, & the bright swan. 1800Wordsw. Brothers 358 He had gone forth among the new-dropped lambs. 1821Byron Juan v. clvi. 289 The new-bought virgin, made her blush and shake. 1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 766 A mixture of new-slaked lime with beer. 1851H. Melville Whale xi, Illuminated by the flame of the new-lit lamp. 1865G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 21 New-dated from the terms that reappear, More sweet-familiar grows my love to thee. 1877― Ibid. 68, I hear the lark ascend, His rash-fresh re-winded new-skeinèd score In crisps of curl off wild winch whirl. 1889W. B. Yeats Wanderings of Oisin iii. 35 Whiter than new-washed fleece. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 32 You can't want new-dug graves daily. 1909Kipling Actions & Reactions 51 Over their heads in the branches Of their new-bought ancient trees. 1913― Songs from Books 43 My new-cut ashlar takes the light. 1918E. Sitwell Clown's Houses 14 In new⁓washed air. 1922Joyce Ulysses 155 Steam of newbaked jampuffs. 1934E. Blunden Choice or Chance 37 Yet one I knew who most of all seemed sent Among earth's flowers for new-fulfilled content. 1935W. Empson Poems 27 With plump or splash on the new-nurtured field To Reason's arm they proper homage yield. 1942R.A.F. Jrnl. 3 Oct. 7 The wheels kicking up a frenzied cloud of new-cut grass. 1943L. B. Lyon Evening in Stepney 20 A script of blackening girders, New-scored by old despair. 1948E. Pound Pisan Cantos (1949) lxxx. 107 Nor is the white bud Time's inquisitor Probing to know if its new-gnarled root Twists from York's head or belly of Lancaster. a1963C. S. Lewis Poems (1964) 69 A seminal breeze from the far side Calls to their new-crowned race.
b. With the pa. pples. of intrans. verbs, as new-awakened, new-bloomed, new-calved, new-departed, new-flown, new-kerned, new-landed, etc. Also † new-(up)start.
a1548Hall Chron., Edw. IV, 192 The husbandman ought first to tast of the new growen frute. 1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) 17/2 The lyke..reason of late renued by a certayne newe start Englysh Clarke. 1618Barnevelt's Apol. Ded. A 2 The tottering and extreme ruine of the new vpstart Arminians. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Poems Wks. (1711) 2 The locks of amber Of new bloom'd sicamores. a1700Ken Hymnotheo Poet. Wks. 1721 III. 44 Bright Gabriel new-departed Souls collects. 1775G. White Selborne xliii, To make sad havock..among the new-flown swallows. 1785Burns 2nd Ep. to J. Lapraik i, Whyle new-ca'd kye rowte at the stake. 1819Shelley Prometh. Unb. ii. i. 148 The white dew on the new-bladed grass. 1846C. G. Prowett Prometh. Bound 42 To cower beneath These new-grown gods. 1851H. Melville Moby Dick I. xxiii. 169 One Bulkington was spoken of, a new-landed mariner, encountered in New Bedford. 1884T. Speedy Sport Highl. vii. 80 Clean, new-run sea-trout are often caught..with small fly. 1908Hardy Dynasts iii. vii. ii. 486 The peaceful produce of the grange,..new-kerned apples, hairy gooseberries green. 1918E. Sitwell Clown's Houses 7 The new-awakened flower-strange hair.
4. Similarly with pa. pples. (and some adjs.) used predicatively, or placed after the noun, as new-awakened, new-crushed, new-desired, etc.
Shakespeare has about a dozen examples of this use: as new-adopted, new-begot, new-burned, etc.
a1340Hampole Psalter Cant. 516 Sere errours..new broght vp thorgh entysynge of þe deuyll. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xlix. (Thecla) 302 Þane fand scho thamyrum nev ded. c1386Chaucer Clerk's Prol. 3 Ye ryde as coy and stille, as dooth a mayde Were newe spoused. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xxxi. 140 Þai ware..so fresch as þai had bene euen new deed. c1440Alph. Tales 77 He broght þaim owder a swyne or a schepe new slayn. 1480Bury Wills (Camden) 65 The colage of preestes newe bildid within the town of Bury. 1581G. Pettie tr. Guazzo's Civ. Conv. i. (1586) 1 b, He..found him at the table, but new dined. 1588J. Udall Diotrephes (Arb.) 31 He is but newe gone out of the gate. 1600Fairfax Tasso xx. xlvi, Like a man new-turn'd to marble stone. 1663Gerbier Counsel 28 Stone..new taken out of the Quarry. 1684T. Burnet The. Earth i. 289 Every hypothesis that is new-propos'd and untri'd. a1711Ken Hymnarium Wks. 1721 II. 117 Allotting Mansions ev'ry Day, For all new-stript of Clay. 1742Young Nt. Th. ix. 1301 As new-awak'd, I lift A more enlighten'd eye. 1791Cowper Iliad ii. 53 His fleecy vest New-woven he put on. 1817Keats I stood tiptoe 8 The clouds were pure and white as flocks new shorn. 1859Tennyson Geraint & Enid 862 As sullen as a beast new-caged. 1870Bryant Iliad II. xv. 101 The horse-hair crest New-tinged with purple. 1878O. Wilde Ravenna 13 Thou hast not drunk this wine From grapes new-crushed. 1917D. H. Lawrence Look! We have come Through! 131 Now here was I, new⁓awakened. 1959Blunden Hong Kong House, Except when they, of one tree tired Into another new-desired Over the lawn and scattered playthings chose to glide.
5. a. With pa. pples. used predicatively in the sense of ‘Anew, afresh’.
Common in, and after, Shakespeare. Cotgrave uses such forms to render a number of French pa. pples. in re-, as ‘reaplani, new-levelled’.
a1300Cursor M. 20215 Quen scho was schod and neu clad, To ihesu crist a bone scho badde. 1370Robt. Cicyle 54 Thy crowne schalle be newe schorne. 1470–85Malory Arthur xiii. xvii. 636 Syr Percyuale..knewe hym not, for he was newe desguysed. 1485Rutland Papers (Camden) 23 The King, thus unaraied,..shalbe by the said Chamberlayn new arraied. a1533Ld. Berners Huon xxxvi. 113 A m. horses let to be new shode. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 415 Such..must be newskowred in the Popes Purgatory. 1587Golding De Mornay xvii. (1592) 274 To be as it were newfurbished, to scoure of the great Rust. 1641Sir E. Dering Sp. on Relig. xi. 38 That was revised, and new senced by us. 1663Heath Flagellum (1672) 112 The same day..he was new proclaimed. 1706Pope Let. to Wycherley 10 Apr., Some [verses]..I have entirely new express'd. 1733P. Lindsay Interest Scot. 195 They put a-shore their Nets to be repair'd and new-barkt. 1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) II. 351 The bill..comes back to be new tinkered up by the same hand. 1847Mrs. Carlyle Lett. I. 394 When the parlour is new-papered. 1859Ld. Lytton Wanderer (ed. 2) 180 The streets are new-peopled: the morning is bright.
b. Placed after a noun or pronoun.
[1590Spenser F.Q. i. vi. 44 Then backe to fight againe, new breathed and entire.] 1593Shakes. Rich. II, ii. i. 31 Me thinkes I am a Prophet new inspir'd. 1636Massinger Bashful Lover v. i, Here he comes, With his officers, new-rigged. a1661Fuller Worthies (1840) II. 412 So many houses daily, new-dipt, assume to themselves new names. 1705Addison Italy Wks. 1721 II. 11 A St. Bartholomew, new-flead, with his skin hanging over his shoulders. 1767S. Paterson Another Trav. I. 288 The self-same picture, new modified. 1796Burney Mem. Metastasio II. 91 You will receive four of my first dramas, new written. 1827Keble Chr. Y., Burial Dead, Then cheerly to your work again With hearts new-brac'd and set. 1897W. Watson in Westm. Gaz. 16 July 3/1 Behold him Rise, new-fanged.
6. a. With active forms of transitive verbs, in the same sense.
Also freq. in Cotgrave to render French verbs in re-.
1442Rolls of Parlt. V. 44/1 And ther with..newe edifie and bilde anothir Brigge. 1570Norton & Sackville's Gorboduc Printer to Rdr., They..haue..new apparelled, trimmed and attired her. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. ii. 17 Streams of purple bloud new die the verdant fields. 1633Ford Broken H. v. iii, Thus I new-marry him, whose wife I am. 1666Pepys Diary 13 June, She had new-whitened the house all below stairs. 1713Steele Guard. No. 84 ⁋2 They will new-plait and adjust your neckcloth. 1745P. Thomas Jrnl. Anson's Voy. 299 The Commodore..sent Assistance to get her off and new-moor her. 1771Foote Maid of B. i. Wks. 1799 II. 213 To scour and new-line the coachman and footman's old frocks. 1803Edin. Rev. II. 36 The whole nation exerting itself to new-floor the Government-house. 1833N. Arnott Physics (ed. 5) II. 119 Separating, combining, and new-modifying them to serve to him most useful purposes. a1861Mrs. Browning Void in Law vii, He thinks that..he'll new-stamp the ore?
b. With active forms of intransitive verbs, as new-dapple, new-nestle.
a1885G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 193 As sure as what is most sure, sure as that spring primroses Shall new-dapple next year. a1889― Ibid. 185 Say it is ásh⁓boughs: whether on a December day and furled Fast ór they in clammyish lashtender combs creep Apart wide and new-nestle at heaven most high.
7. a. With pres. pples. of intransitive verbs used attributively, as new-appearing, new-bleeding, new-breaking, new-budding, new-dawning, etc. Also new-emergent.
1594Shakes. Rich. III, iv. iv. 10 My vnblowed Flowres, new appearing sweets. 1597― Lover's Compl. 153 Experience for me many bulwarks builded Of proofs new-bleeding. 1610Donne Pseudo-martyr 327 Not vpon new emergent matter, but vpon better knowledge of the former. 1669Dryden Tyrannic Love iv. i, We slide on the back of a new-falling star. 1726Pope Odyss. xix. 703 Down her pale cheek new-streaming sorrow flows. 1817Byron Manfred ii. ii, On the swift whirl of the new-breaking wave. 1820J. Trumbull Poetical Wks. II. 108 Prove to the world in these new-dawning skies, What genius kindles and what arts arise. a1861Clough London Idyll 37 Odours of new-budding rose. 1895Outing (U.S.) XXVI. 443/1 Patches of the new-starting rushes.
b. With pres. pples. of intransitive verbs that are const. with predicative adverbs, as new-looking, new-seeming.
1905J. Joyce Let. c 12 Oct. (1966) II. 121 A good new-looking..suit. 1928D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley xv. 276 The man's face, that was smooth and new-looking with love. 1951S. Spender World within World 87 Rain⁓drops..through the sun..would gleam with a new-seeming whiteness. 1969Sears Catal. Spring/Summer 15 Enamel colors oven-baked to stay new-looking longer.
8. With verbal ns. rare.
1484Churchw. Acc. Wigtoft, Linc. (Nichols 1797) 78 Paide for neweshotyng of the grete bell claper. 1611Cotgr., Reedification, a..reedifying, new-building. 1700C. Nesse Antid. Armin. (1827) 106 If conversion be a new-begetting..then fallen man hath no free-will. |