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neologism
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neologism
A new word or new meaning for an existing word. The high-tech field routinely creates neologisms, especially new meanings. Years ago, there was no doubt that a "mouse" referred only to a furry, little rodent.


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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.
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.
 
 
 
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