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uality or state of being novel; newness; freshness; recentness of origin or introduction. Novelty is the great parent of pleasure. South.

hter, or to ridicule anything. The dull burlesque appeared with impudence, And pleased by novelty in spite of sense. Dryden.

A succesion or substitution of one thing in the place of another; a difference; novelty; variety; as, a change of seasons. Our fathers did for change to France repair. Dryden. The ringing grooves of change. Tennyson.

To bring in as new; to introduce as a novelty; as, to innovate a word or an act. [Archaic]

The quality or state of being modern; recentness; novelty. M. Arnold.

An innovation or novelty; a neoteric word or phrase.

A novelty; a new thing. [Obs.] Spenser.

Newmade; formed with the affectation of novelty. "A newfangled nomenclature." Sir W. Hamilton.

Affectation of, or fondness for, novelty; vain or affected fashion or form.

In a newfangled manner; with eagerness for novelty. [Obs.] Sir T. More.

That which is new or unusual; a novelty.

An innovator; an asserter of novelty. [Obs.] Cudworth.

Novelty; new things. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Newness; novelty. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

new as a spike or nail just made and a chip just split; brand- new; as, a spick and span novelty. See Span-new. Howell.

Worn out by use or familiarity; having lost its novelty and power of pleasing; trite; common. Swift. Wit itself, if stale is less pleasing. Grew. How weary, stale flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! Shak. Stale affidavit (Law), an affidavit held above a year. Craig. -- Stale demand (Law), a c…

The genius and strain of the book of Proverbs. Tillotson. It [Pilgrim's Progress] seems a novelty, and yet contains Nothing but sound and honest gospel strains. Bunyan.

Worn out; common; used until so common as to have lost novelty and interest; hackneyed; stale; as, a trite remark; a trite subject. -- Trite"ly, adv. -- Trite"ness, n.

of different things; diversity; multifariousness. Variety is nothing else but a continued novelty. South. The variety of colors depends upon the composition of light. Sir I. Newton. For earth this variety from heaven. Milton. There is a variety in the tempers of good men. Atterbury.

That emotion which is excited by novelty, or the presentation to the sight or mind of something new, unusual, strange, great, extraordinary, or not well understood; surprise; astonishment; admiration; amazement. They were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him. Acts iii. 10. Wonder is the…