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Neologist

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ne·ol·o·gism  (n-l-jzm)
n.
1. A new word, expression, or usage.
2. The creation or use of new words or senses.
3. Psychology
a. The invention of new words regarded as a symptom of certain psychotic disorders, such as schizophrenia.
b. A word so invented.
4. Theology A new doctrine or a new interpretation of scripture.
ne·olo·gist n.
ne·olo·gistic, ne·olo·gisti·cal adj.
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Noun1.neologist - a lexicographer of new words and expressions
lexicographer, lexicologist - a compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language
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The synthetic nuvat-quotative suggested as a neologist form instead of the latter never became rooted in literary language and no instances of the nuvat-form were found in the analysed material.
Indirectal in literary Estonian by Sepper, Maria-Maren / Trames
20) Thus, quoting in abschied final words from Herbert's Temple in his penultimate line, the neologist Jesuit may seem to get scot-free of the obsolete `Temple' of former existence, in comfortable contrast to the real `dauphin' of the Terror, who, after damning his mother to the guillotine by attesting to a sexual libel against her, was brutalized to death within the Temple prison.
Faithful to the Greek?: Swinburnian Patterning (Hopkinsian Dapple) by Hardman, Malcolm / Yearbook of English Studies
 
 
 
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