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Webster 1913 Edition
Newfangleness
New′fanˊgle-ness
,Noun.
[OE.
newefanglenes
. See Fangle
.] Newfangledness.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Proud
newfangleness
in their apparel. Robynson (More’s Utopia).
Definition 2024
newfangleness
newfangleness
English
Noun
newfangleness (uncountable)
- Obsolete form of newfangledness.
- 1387, Chaucer, “v. 609”, in The Squire's Tale:
- ...thus seyn men, as I gesse. Men loven of propre kynde newefangelnesse
- 1586, Maitland, Quarto Manuscript:
- To weir all thing that sinne provoikis / And all for newfangilnes of geir.
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