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ˈnovity Now rare or Obs.
Forms: 6 nouite(e, 6–7 nouitie, 7 -ity; 5 novitee, 6 -ite, 6–7 -itie, 7– novity.
[a. OF. novité, = It. novita, Sp. novedad, Pg. novidade, ad. L. novitāt-em, f. novus new: see -ity.]
†1. An innovation; a novelty. Obs.
1460Anc. Cal. Rec. Dubl. (1889) 307 Forasmuch as such novitees hath not be uset afor this time. 1545Joye Exp. Dan. vi. M iij b, This perillouse novite and mutacion put into his head. 1588J. Harvey Disc. Probl. 119 Two Eclipses in the space of one month, are no great strange nouities. 1654Vilvain Theor. Theol. i. 31 'Tis a witty novity, or castle in the air. 1692S. Patrick Answ. Touchstone 85 When Pope Gregory VII. adventured upon it, it was esteemed a Novity, not to say an Heresy.
2. Novelty; newness. (Common in 17th c.)
1569J. Sandford tr. Agrippa's Van. Artes 14 b, With a nouitee or straungnesse full of trifles. 1607J. Carpenter Plaine Mans Plough 105 This..is Christ, by whom we have a triple Nouitie or Newnesse. 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacræ iii. ii. §2 Was it not a strong presumption of the Novity of the Universe? 1699Bentley Phal. xiii. 393, I know the novity of these Epistles from the whole body and form of the work. 1823Lamb Ess., Amicus Redivivus, That unmeaning assumption of eternal novity. |