neology
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Some have more to do with neology than psychology.
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Neolog′ic, -al, pertaining to neology: using new words.—adv.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 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 Walter Thornbury
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 Joel Barlow
In the first place, they describe only one side of the case; for, if there is much infidelity and neology on the continent, there is also a considerable sprinkling of true religion.
From A Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Bexley containing a statement to the committee of the British and Foreign Bible Society by Francis Cunningham
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