novity
English
Alternative forms
- novitee [15th century]
- nouite, nouitee, novite, nouitie, novitie [16th century]
- nouitie, novitie, nouity [17th century]
- novity [17th century to the present]
Etymology
Inherited from the Middle English novitē (“an innovative practice”), borrowed from Middle French novité (“novelty, change, innovation”), from the Latin novitās (“newness, novelty; rareness, strangeness; newness of rank; reformation”); cognate with the Italian novità, the Portuguese novidade, the Romanian noutate, and the Spanish novedad.
Pronunciation
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Noun
novity (countable and uncountable, plural novities)
- (countable, now rare) An innovation; a novelty.
- 1460, “Dublin documents” quoted by John Thomas Gilbert in Calendar of the Ancient Records of Dublin (1889), volume 1, page 307
- Such novitees hath not be uset afor this time.
- 1972 December 22nd, The Times Literary Supplement, page 1,545, column 5
- The ‘Jesus freaks’ and other extravagant novities of American religious life.
- 1460, “Dublin documents” quoted by John Thomas Gilbert in Calendar of the Ancient Records of Dublin (1889), volume 1, page 307
- (uncountable, now rare) Novelty; newness.
- 1569, Henricus Cornelius Agrippa [aut.] and James Sanford [tr.], Of the Vanitie and Vncertaintie of Artes and Sciences (1st edition), page 14b
- With a nouitee or straungnesse full of trifles.
- 1823 December, Charles Lamb, “Amicus Redivivus” in The London Magazine, page 615, column 1:
- That unmeaning assumption of eternal novity.
- 1569, Henricus Cornelius Agrippa [aut.] and James Sanford [tr.], Of the Vanitie and Vncertaintie of Artes and Sciences (1st edition), page 14b
Translations
novity — see novelty
References
- “No·vity” listed on page 244 of volume VI, part II (M–N), § ii (N) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles [1st ed., 1908]
- “ˈnovity” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989]
- “novity, n.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [3rd ed., December 2003]
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