newfangleness

From Middle English newfangelnesse, newfongilnes, from Old English *nīwefangelnes (compare Old English underfangelnes), equivalent to new- +‎ fangle +‎ -ness.

newfangleness (uncountable)

1. Obsolete form of newfangledness.

• “newfangleness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

From Middle English newfangelnesse, newfongilnes, from Old English *nīwefangelnes (compare Old English underfangelnes).

newfangleness (uncountable)

1. newfangledness; the state of being newfangled
   • 1586, Maitland, Quarto Manuscript‎:

     To weir all thing that sinne provoikis / And all for newfangilnes of geir.

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• newfangle

• “newfangleness” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.