Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of neologizing, in any sense of that word.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or process of neologizing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act or process of
neologizing ; the creation of new forms.
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Examples
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And if, in this process of sound neologization, our trans-Atlantic brethren shall not choose to accompany us, we may furnish, after the Ionians, a second example of a colonial dialect improving on its primitive.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 Thomas Jefferson 1784
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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 Thomas Jefferson 1784
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