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newelty Now dial.|ˈnjuːəltɪ|
Forms: 5 nwelte, 6 nueltie; 5 newelte, 6–7 neweltie, (6 -tee, -tye), 7, 9 newalty, 6– newelty.
[ad. OF. nov-, nouveleté, etc. (mod. F. nouveauté) novelty, after new a.]
1. Novelty, newness.
c1410Sir Cleges 214 Loo dame! here ys newelte! 1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1874) I. 17 The neweltye of the name was more plesant unto the first actour. 1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 397/2 After a little vse thereof, the pleasure of the neweltie passed. 1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) 783/2 Accusing the true doctrine of the word of God, for neweltie. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1768) I. 23 He had heard [that] newelty, that was the man's word, was every⁓thing with him. 1886Elworthy W. Som. Word-bk.
2. A novelty; a new thing.
1435Misyn Fire of Love 95 Not seand kynde qwhat be⁓semys, bot qwhat..vayne nwelte þe feynd..may vp brynge. c1500For to serve a Lord in Babees Bk. (1868) 373 Cheryes, pepyns, and such neweltees as the tyme of the yere requereth. 1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Thess. 4 You must not thinke it any neweltie, though these thinges happen. 1617Collins Def. Bp. Ely i. iv. 181 One Grauius..brought it first from Rome, and set it out as a neweltie. 1683A. Behn Young King v. iii, My wife loves Newalties abominationly, and I must tell her something about the King. 1854A. E. Baker Northampt. Gloss. s.v., I aint had a bit of pig-meat so long, it's quite a newalty.
†3. Used as adj. Novel, new. Obs. rare—1.
1590T. Fenne Frutes To Rdr., I assure thee that the Cates themselves be as daintie and neweltie as the best. |