neology

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From neo- + -logy. In the theological sense, originally implying its proponents were innovators departing from religious tradition.

He had first of all gone through a full curriculum in one of the old orthodox halls of the United States; he had then passed into Germany, where he had taken a course of neology and philosophy; and now he had come to Rome, where he intended to finish off with a course of Romanism. — Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber : $b or, The influence of Romanism on trade, justice, and knowledge, J. A. (James Aitken) Wylie

neologism, coinage

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