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novelism|ˈnɒvəlɪz(ə)m|
Also 7 nouellisme, novellisme, novalism, 7–8 novellism.
[f. novel n. + -ism: cf. F. nouvellisme, Sp. novel-, Pg. novellismo.]
†1. Innovation; novelty. Obs. (freq. in 17th c.).
1626T. H[awkins] tr. Caussin's Holy Crt. 143 Those, which haue obtruded Nouellisme so disasterous..to Christendome. 1657J. Watts Dipper Sprinkled 92 The new upstart and out-staring novelisms of these later Ages. 1673Cave Prim. Chr. i. ii. 21 Obliquely reflecting on the novellism of Christianity. 1703Secret Policy Jansenists 27 If he were but the least suspected of Novellism.
2. Novel-writing.
1828Blackw. Mag. XXIV. 469 What a host of pens and printers have been pressed into the service of romance and novelism by the appearance of the Waverley Novels. 1849Fraser's Mag. XL. 691 A mass of volumes,..all equally marked with the generic and unmistakeable character of novelism. 1881Spectator 29 Oct. 1372 The ordinary level of what may be called novelism. |