Meanings
adverbof new (not comparable)
- not comparableobsoleteOnce again; anew.First known use 10th–19th c.
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, […]; and Cadell & Co., […], →OCLC1 more example
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
Origin
From of + new; compare Late Latin de novo, French de nouveau.
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APA
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Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “of new,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/of%20new.
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