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of new

of new adverb: once again; anew.

Adverb

of new (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Once again; anew.
    • Pastorell through great affright / Was almost dead, misdoubting least of-new / Some uprore were like that which lately she did vew.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    • His attention was of new summoned.1827, [Walter Scott], The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IX), Edinburgh: […] Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green...

Origin of of new

From of + new; compare Late Latin de novo, French de nouveau.

Questions about of new

What does of new mean?
Of new means once again; anew.
What part of speech is of new?
Of new is an adverb.

Words near of new in the dictionary

  1. of Koranic proportions
  2. of late
  3. of means
  4. of mine
  5. of modest means
  6. of new
  7. of no avail
  8. of note
  9. of old
  10. of one mind
  11. of one's choice

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