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

At length they were so successful in their neology, that with great difficulty they understood one another.

From Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions by Disraeli, Isaac

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.