newfounded

English

Adjective

newfounded (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of new-founded
   • 1866, John James, Continuation and Additions to the History of Bradford, and Its Parish:

     This Church was given to the newfounded College of St. Mary's at Leicester, and in year 1416 it was by Henry Bowe^t, Archbishop, appropriated to the Dean and Canons of the same, reserving to himself and successors 20s per annum, and to the Dean and Chapter 6s. 8d. to be paid by the said College, as also 20s. per annum to the poor of the parish; the Vicar to have the same maintenance that the former Vicars used to have.

   • 1871, Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas:

     Of all this, and these lamentable conditions, to breathe into them the breath recuperative of sane and heroic life, I say a newfounded literature, not merely to copy and reflect existing surfaces, or pander to what is called taste — not only to amuse, pass away time, celebrate the beautiful, the refined, the past, or exhibit technical, rhythmic, or grammatical dexterity— but a literature underlying life, religious, consistent with science, handling the elements and forces with competent power, teaching and training men — and, as perhaps the most precious of its results, achieving the redemption of woman out of those incredible holds and webs of silliness, millinery, and every kind of dyspeptic depletion— and thus insuring to The States a strong and sweet female race, a race of perfect mothers— is what is needed.

   • 1915, Edinburgh Dental Student - Volume 6, page 196:

     Like all newfounded things the magazine was at first in danger of being crushed by over enthusiasm and later by neglect.

   • 2005, John Barth, Where Three Roads Meet, →ISBN, page 69:

     So many dead Dragons, routed Pretenders, punctured Princesses and newfounded Cities — who needed yet another?

2. (rare) Synonym of newfound
   • 1969, Wisconsin Office of the Commissioner of Insurance, Wisconsin Insurance Report - Volume 101, page 78:

     Undoubtedly, some of the increase in volume of complaints may be attributed to the public's newfounded awareness of the existence of this Office and the services we offer.

   • 1976, Robert Joseph Lyons, Michelangelo Antonioni's neo-realism: a world view, page 200:

     The shot of David at the shipyard when he spreads his arms and leans forward in an open cable car suggesting a newfounded exhilerating freedom is dominantly blue--sky, water, shirt.

   • 2010, M.P. Bryant III, A Demon's Tale, →ISBN:

     With a firm and newfounded resolve upon his face, he reached up then, and took my offered hand in his.