neologist

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It is much to be wished that some bold neologist would devise

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  1. One who introduces new words or phrases into a language. A dictionary of barbarisms too might be collected from some wretched neologists, whose pens are now at work! I. D'Israeli, Curios. of Lit., III. 347.
  2. Same as neologian. There sprung up among the Greeks a class of speculative neologists and rationalizing critics, called Sophists. Bushnell, Nature and the Supernat, i.

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  • It is much to be wished that some bold neologist would devise —  The Earth as Modified by Human Action
  • There it stands, high above them all, and remote from them all, in its air of great antiquity, in its unaccountableness, in its serene truthfulness, in its unapproachable sublimity, in that impress of divine majesty and ineffable holiness which even the unbelieving neologist has been compelled to acknowledge, and by which every devout reader feels that the first page in Genesis is forever distinguished from any mere human production Footnote 48: Born In New York; a prolific writer, eminent for his profound scholarship, his wide acquaintance with Oriental and Biblical literature, and his originality and freedom of mind: long Professor of Greek in Union College From "State Rights 163._= CRUEL INTESTINE WARS CAUSED BY NATIONAL DIVISION If it were Death alone! —  Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
  • Although Republicans, led by the renowned neologist George W. Bush, are doubtless equally guilty of foot-in-mouth incursions (Trent Lott's infamous birthday paean to Strom Thurmond comes to mind), the GOP might benefit as much from an Adultery & Wide Stance Amnesty Act. Given all the words uttered in the course of a presidential campaign, some are going to be screamingly funny; others ridiculous; some embarrassing and still others painful. —  National Review Online
  • And if I may venture to define it in the presence of the distinguished neologist himself, it means, "To deal with histrionically"; or, rather, that's what it will mean a couple of hundred years hence. —  The Return
  • And give the word neologism to our language, as a root, and it should give us its fellow substantives, neology, neologist, neologization; its adjectives, neologous, neological, neologistical; its verb, neologize; and adverb neologically. —  Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4
 

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  1. = French néologiste = Spanish Portuguese neologistd; as neolog-y + -ist.
 

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