New English
New English proper noun: the form of the English language spoken since the Great Vowel Shift in England, completed in roughly 1550.
Proper noun
New English
- The form of the English language spoken since the Great Vowel Shift in England, completed in roughly 1550.
- Synonyms:
- Modern English
Noun
New English (plural New Englishes or New English)
- A variety of English that has come into being in a region where English was a former colonial language or is a foreign language.
- Nevertheless, a certain amount of schizophrenia pertains to the study of World Englishes as New Englishes, for while new Englishes are regarded as valid varieties in their own right, the description and delineation of them in linguistic terms is conducted through the gaze of native-speaker norms.2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 305
- Synonyms:
- World English
- New Englanders.
- This Southwest wind is called by the New-English, the Sea turne, which comes from the Sunne in the morning, about nine or ten of the clock Southeast, and about South, and then strongest Southwest in the after-noone, and towards night, when it dies away.1643, Roger Williams, A Key into the Language of America, London: Gregory Dexter, →OCLC, page 11
- Another complayned of other Indians that did revile them, and call them Rogues and such like speeches for cutting off their Locks, and for cutting their Haire in a modest manner as the New-English generally doe1647, anonymous author, The Day-Breaking, if not the Sun-Rising of the Gospell with the Indians in New-England, London: Richard Cotes; republished as “The Day-Breaking […] ”, in MHS Collections...
- English settlers who arrived in Ireland in the 16th and 17th centuries, as distinguished from previous Anglo-Norman invaders (the Old English).
- It was already evident that the degree of influence that the New English could exert in Ireland was becoming severely restricted by governmental practices that tended to concentrate effective power in England.1976, Aidan Clarke, “Selling Royal Favours, 1624–32”, in T. W. Moody et al., editors, A New History of Ireland, volume 3, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 235
- Instead of exporting hides and raw wool, the New English established communities devoted to tanning and weaving, and the towns of Tallow and Bandonbridge in Munster came to be recognised as model manufacturing towns.1987, Nicholas P. Canny, From Reformation to Restoration, Dublin: Helicon, →ISBN, page 180
Adjective
New English (comparative more New English, superlative most New English)
- Of or pertaining to New England.
- Thirdly, since those persons in the New English plantations accounted unfit for church estate, yet remain all members of the church of England, from which New England dares not separate, no not in their sacraments (as some of the independents have published), what riddle or mystery, or rather...1644, Roger Williams, The Bloudy Tenent […] ; republished as The Bloudy Tenent […] , London: J. Haddon, 1848, →OCLC, page 243
- […] as it was with our New-English ground when we first came over, there was scarce any man that could beleeve that English graine would grow, or that the Plow could doe any good in this woody and rocky soile.1647, anonymous author, The Day-Breaking, if not the Sun-Rising of the Gospell with the Indians in New-England, London: Richard Cotes; republished as “The Day-Breaking […] ”, in MHS Collections...
- Of or pertaining to English settlers who arrived in Ireland in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- The New English settlers, whose numbers increased during plantation, and particularly during the land settlement of the 1650s following upon the suppression of the Irish rebellion of 1641-53, were never numerically dominant.1991, Peter R. Newman, “New English”, in Companion to Irish History, 1603–1921, Oxford: Facts On File, →ISBN, page 132
- As a Catholic lawyer and land-owner with Gaelic connections, Barnewall represented everything repugnant to full extension of New English rule in Ireland.2002 [1985], Hans S. Pawlisch, Sir John Davies and the Conquest of Ireland (Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics), 1st paperback edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press...
New English meaning in Hindi, Marathi and Vietnamese
New English in Hindi
- form of the English language spoken since the Great Vowel Shift, completed in roughly 1550
- आधुनिक अंग्रेज़ी ādhunik aṅgrezī
New English in Marathi
- form of the English language spoken since the Great Vowel Shift, completed in roughly 1550
- नवी इंग्रजी navī iṅgrajī
New English in Vietnamese
- form of the English language spoken since the Great Vowel Shift, completed in roughly 1550
- tiếng Anh hiện đại
Examples of New English in a sentence
- Any honest New Englander—a New Englander of the villages, I mean—will admit that the New English are singularly ungifted for social life and manners.1920, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, “Miss Alcott's New England”, in Modes and Morals, New York: C. Scribner's sons, →OCLC, page 195:
- By the end of the seventeenth century, the New English were building almost all of the vessels they employed, as well as growing numbers for English merchants.2001, Alan Taylor, American Colonies, New York: Viking Penguin, →ISBN, page 176:
- We being an outcast people, formerly from our mother nations in the Bishops days, and since from the rest of the New English over zealous Coloniesc. 1659, Rhode Island Court of Commissioners, [Address to Cromwell]; republished as “The Colony of Rhode Island to Richard Cromwell”, in...
- Until and even after the American Revolution, the New English child was formed in the religious image of his Puritan ancestors.1974, James Axtell, The School upon a Hill, New Haven: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 6:
Synonyms of New English
Forms of New English
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | New Englishes |
| plural | New English |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more New English |
| superlative | most New English |
Questions about New English
- What does New English mean?
- New English means the form of the English language spoken since the Great Vowel Shift in England, completed in roughly 1550.
- What is New English in Hindi?
- New English in Hindi is आधुनिक अंग्रेज़ी (ādhunik aṅgrezī). See New English meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use New English in a sentence?
- Any honest New Englander—a New Englander of the villages, I mean—will admit that the New English are singularly ungifted for social life and manners.
- What part of speech is New English?
- New English can be a proper noun, a noun or an adjective.
Words near New English in the dictionary
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