单词 | neoterist |
释义 | neoteristn.adj. Now rare. A proponent or adherent of new ideas, beliefs, or practices; (also) a coiner or user of new words or phrases, a neologist. Also (occasionally) as adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > use or formation of new words or phrases > [noun] > one who mint master1599 logodaedalus1611 logodaedalist1727 neologist1785 neoterist1872 verbarian1873 1872 Scribner's Monthly Apr. 706/2 The purists may, accordingly, dismiss their apprehensions, especially as the neoterists have, clearly, a keener horror of phraseological ungainliness than themselves. 1873 F. Hall Mod. Eng. 192 Among writers of the first class, none are wild neoterists. 1876 Catholic World Oct. 4/1 We hope to have indicated enough to enable the reader to judge of the fitness of our neoterists to become the leaders of thought. 1953 R. Kirk Conservative Mind i. 9 The radical, when all is said, is a neoterist, in love with change. 1998 Yi-Tsi Mei Ideology, Power, Text i. 29 A notion that China could not join the modern world or even survive in it without a ‘total demolition of the tradition’—‘a neoterist mentality’ as Ying-shih Yü terms it—had been formed among the Chinese intellectual elite. Derivatives neoteˈristic adj. rare ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > use or formation of new words or phrases > [adjective] new fashion1745 neological1754 neologous1812 neologismal1836 neoteristic1873 neologistic1935 1873 F. Hall Mod. Eng. 164 Neoteristic canons. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1872 |
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