newfangleness

English

Etymology

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

Noun

newfangleness (uncountable)

Obsolete form of newfangledness.
- 1387, Chaucer, “v. 609”, in The Squire's Tale‎:
  ...thus seyn men, as I gesse. Men loven of propre kynde newefangelnesse
- 1586, Maitland, Quarto Manuscript‎:
  To weir all thing that sinne provoikis / And all for newfangilnes of geir.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for newfangleness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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