Neology

And at least his success was unmistakable as to the precise literary effect he had intended, including a certain tincture of "neology" in expression -- nonnihil interdum elocutione novella parum signatum -- in the language of ❋ Walter Pater (1866)

The aging CBS anchorwoman did a segment on “neology,” which, as she defined it, is the invention of a word, or breathing new life into an old one. ❋ Jason Mattera (2010)

Bainbridge reminds us that Thomas Jefferson wrote: I am a friend to neology. ❋ Ann Althouse (2006)

News peer reputation survey, generated a spirited critique by David Giacalone on on the f/k/a blog, which is dedicated to "one-breath poetry & breathless punditry with haikuEsq," for engaging in "bad neology": ❋ Unknown (2005)

Interest in coinage, or neology, is closely akin to etymology, the history of coinage and semantic development. ❋ William Safire (2003)

But even the dictionary is not large enough for him, and he extends it this way and that, his daring neology creating consternation among the critic flies and other ephemera. ❋ Unknown (1898)

"To the sincerely inquiring doubter, the striking way in which the truth of the Resurrection is exhibited must be most beneficial, but such a character we are compelled to believe is rare among those of the schools of neology." ❋ Samuel Butler (1868)

For this was the age of Benthamism in social philosophy and "German neology" in biblical criticism. ❋ John Knight Fotheringham (1867)

He will feel the obligation not of the laws only, but of those affinities, avoidances, those mere preferences, of his language, which through the associations of literary history have become a part of its nature, prescribing the rejection of many a neology, many a license, many a gipsy phrase which might present itself as actually expressive. ❋ Walter Pater (1866)

He had first of all gone through a full curriculum in one of the old orthodox halls of the United States; he had then passed into Germany, where he had taken a course of neology and philosophy; and now he had come to Rome, where he intended to finish off with a course of Romanism. ❋ James Aitken Wylie (1849)

And so the modern evangelical of the Venn and Newton school, to whom mysticism is neology and nehushtan, when he speaks of "spiritual experiences," uses the adjective in its purely mystic sense; while Bernard of ❋ Charles Kingsley (1847)

At length they were so successful in their neology, that with great difficulty they understood one another. ❋ Isaac Disraeli (1807)

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. ❋ Thomas Jefferson (1784)

The same progress which leads to farther extensions of ideas will still extend the vocabulary; and our neology must and will keep pace with the advancement of our knowledge. ❋ Joel Barlow (1783)

I set equal value on the beautiful engraftments we have borrowed from Greece and Rome, and I am equally a friend to the encouragement of a judicious neology; a language cannot be too rich. ❋ Unknown (1760)