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Example sentences for: neologisms
How can you use “neologisms” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
For one thing, he documents many neologisms, an activity that endears him to many working lexicographers.
Lest the reader think of Dryden as a stuffy purist, here he is on neologisms:
As Martyn Ecott cleverly demonstrates, francophone purists have reason for alarm; the flow, absolute flood of vocabulary from French into English, once resulting in a kind of hybridization, has lately been somewhat reversed, depositing in the elegant French language such grotesque neologisms as un pin's or hip hop.
There are therefore no neologisms in rhyming slang and it is definitely moribund.
But the most interesting method of analyzing Vance's neologisms is by etymological speculation, which falls into roughly five categories that shade into one another like colors in the spectrum.
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