neology

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Some have more to do with neology than psychology.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Brann, William Cowper

Mr. Milburn, in one of his chapters, gives an account of his passage through what he is pleased to call neology and rationalism.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 by Various

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

The same progress which leads to farther extensions of ideas will still extend the vocabulary; and our neology must and will keep pace with the advancement of our knowledge.

From The Columbiad by Barlow, Joel