newelty Now dial.
(ˈnjuːəltɪ)
Forms: 5 nwelte, 6 nueltie; 5 newelte, 6–7 neweltie, (6 -tee, -tye), 7, 9 newalty, 6– newelty.
[ad. OF. nov-, nouveleté, etc. (mod. F. nouveauté) novelty, after new a.]
1. Novelty, newness.
| c 1410 Sir Cleges 214 Loo dame! here ys newelte! 1509 Barclay Shyp of Folys (1874) I. 17 The neweltye of the name was more plesant unto the first actour. 1532 More Confut. Tindale Wks. 397/2 After a little vse thereof, the pleasure of the neweltie passed. 1570 Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) 783/2 Accusing the true doctrine of the word of God, for neweltie. 1748 Richardson Clarissa (1768) I. 23 He had heard [that] newelty, that was the man's word, was every⁓thing with him. 1886 Elworthy W. Som. Word-bk. |
2. A novelty; a new thing.
| 1435 Misyn Fire of Love 95 Not seand kynde qwhat be⁓semys, bot qwhat..vayne nwelte þe feynd..may vp brynge. c 1500 For to serve a Lord in Babees Bk. (1868) 373 Cheryes, pepyns, and such neweltees as the tyme of the yere requereth. 1549 Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Thess. 4 You must not thinke it any neweltie, though these thinges happen. 1617 Collins Def. Bp. Ely i. iv. 181 One Grauius..brought it first from Rome, and set it out as a neweltie. 1683 A. Behn Young King v. iii, My wife loves Newalties abominationly, and I must tell her something about the King. 1854 A. E. Baker Northampt. Gloss. s.v., I aint had a bit of pig-meat so long, it's quite a newalty. |
† 3. Used as adj. Novel, new. Obs. rare—1.
| 1590 T. Fenne Frutes To Rdr., I assure thee that the Cates themselves be as daintie and neweltie as the best. |