neology

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Some have more to do with neology than psychology.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dean Milman's neology, the peculiarities of the Irvingites, and the dangerous Oxford tracts, were alternately denounced.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter

For this was the age of Benthamism in social philosophy and "German neology" in biblical criticism.

From The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) by Brodrick, George C. (George Charles)

This offshoot of German neology, issuing from the same parent stock with Socinianism, finds a congenial soil in a Unitarian community.

From Gleanings by the Way by Clark, John A.

The whiteness and crystalline form of saltpetre presented a sufficient analogy to attach to it a similar name, neology being in those days not quite so common or so easy as at present.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 by Various