† ˈnovelant Obs.
Also nouell-, novellant(e, novilant.
[ad. It. novellante, pres. pple. of novellare to relate news; orig. used in It. form.]
A relater of current events; a newsmonger.
| 1602 Archpriests' Controv. II. 37 Which he deliuered vnto the nouellantes of Rome, to be spreaded amongst them. 1610 in Birch Crt. & Times. Jas. I (1849) I. 115 You need no better novellante than my lady, who was present at all. 1660 Fuller Mixt Contempl. (1841) 184, I know some who repair to such novelants on purpose to know what news is false by their reporting thereof. a 1661 ― Worthies, Essex i. (1662) 335 For things past he was a Perfect Historian; for things present, a Judicious Novilant. |