newfangelnesse

Middle English

Noun

newfangelnesse

  1. newfangledness
    • 1387, Chaucer, “v. 609”, in The Squire's Tale‎:
      ...thus seyn men, as I gesse. Men loven of propre kynde newefangelnesse
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