Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Novel-writing.
- noun Innovation; novelty; preference for novelty.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Innovation.
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- noun uncountable, literature The
dominance of thenovel as a literary form. - noun obsolete
innovation
Etymologies
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Examples
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This series even in spired me to try some novelism myself about killers and magic
Interview: Brent Weeks Author of The Night Angel Trilogy Jeff C 2008
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In reprobating this detestable school, we certainly have no hope that our remarks will reform the French novelism of the day; but we call on the critical press of England to take up the rational and righteous task of reforming our own.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Various
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The recording angel had probably noted the fact of her novelism among her virtues, but she had an imperceptible earthly public.
This Is the End Stella Benson 1912
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It has always seemed to us that some of these gentry were influenced by resentment because a humorist had dared to attempt novelism.
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Why not press into the service of instructive novelism truths stranger than fiction, among characters more marked, and names of higher note, than the whole hot-pressed family of the Fitzes?
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849
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Why not press into the service of instructive novelism truths stranger than fiction, among characters more marked, and names of higher note, than the whole hot-pressed family of the Fitzes?
An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-pages Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849
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