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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

of new en · ADV

Etymology

From of + new; compare Late Latin de novo, French de nouveau.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, obsolete) Once again; anew.
    • Pastorell through great affright / Was almost dead, misdoubting least of-new / Some uprore were like that which lately she did vew. 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
    • His attention was of new summoned. 1827, [Walter Scott], The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IX), Edinburgh: […] Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, […]; and Cadell & Co., […], →OCLC: