neology
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Some have more to do with neology than psychology.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Neolog′ic, -al, pertaining to neology: using new words.—adv.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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 George C. (George Charles) Brodrick
But even the dictionary is not large enough for him, and he extends it this way and that, his daring neology creating consternation among the critic flies and other ephemera.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by William Cowper Brann
If it had been in one of those accepted as genuine and poetical I would have remembered the ballad, but my impression is that it was condemned as a fabrication for this and other neologies.
From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by John Hill Burton
