Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being new.
- noun The state of being newly introduced; novelty.
- noun An innovation; a recent change.
- noun Want of practice or familiarity.
- noun A new condition; reformation or regeneration.
- noun Synonyms See
new .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being new
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- noun The property of being
new ;novelty
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- noun the quality of being new; the opposite of oldness
Etymologies
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Examples
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The only newness is that we have a president that is ready and willing to do something about it
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I mean, we're all clumsy when we're new at something, but let's focus on some hotshots so readers don't get the idea that gender, not newness, is the issue.
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A lot of people quit blogging on WordPress. com, or any blogging service, once the shine has rubbed off and the thrill of newness is gone.
Why Did You Leave Wordpress.com? « Lorelle on WordPress 2006
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Father -- that is, by such a forth-putting of the Father's power as was the effulgence of His whole glory. even so we also -- as risen to a new life with Him. should walk in newness of life -- But what is that "newness?"
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Christians serve Christ in newness of spirit, no longer in oldness of the letter (that is, the old external law as such), Ro 7: 4-6.
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Son, our Lord Jesus Christ's sake, forgive us all that is past, and grant that ever hereafter we may all serve and please thee in newness of life, to the honor and glory of thy name, through him who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end.
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That we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter, v. 6.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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We are now to serve in newness of the spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter, Rom. vii.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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Saviour. that we should -- "so as to" or "so that we." serve in newness of spirit -- "in the newness of the spirit." and not in the oldness of the letter -- not in our old way of literal, mechanical obedience to the divine law, as a set of external rules of conduct, and without any reference to the state of our hearts; but in that new way of spiritual obedience which, through union to the risen
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4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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