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newness
Part of speech: NounState or quality of being new; recentness; difference from the former manner.
Usage examples "newness":- The cathedral, which is so new as to make one rejoice that most other cathedrals are old, is of a glaring freshness, but is very handsome; somehow in spite of its newness it contains the tombs of the reigning family, and perhaps it has only been newly done over. - "Roman Holidays and Others", W. D. Howells.
- The love between these children- for so, if not literally in years, in their newness to all that steals the freshness and the dew from maturer life they may be rightly called- was such as befitted those whose souls have not forfeited the Eden. - "Lucretia, Complete", Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
- The generous wine of the Bacchus and of " Comus," so intoxicating in its newness, the same wine in the Sistine and " Paradise Lost," so overwhelming in its mature strength, has acquired an austere aridity. - "The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti", John Addington Symonds.