of new

English

Etymology

From of + new; compare Late Latin de novo, French de nouveau.

Adverb

of new (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Once again; anew. [10th–19th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Pastorell through great affright / Was almost dead, misdoubting least of-new / Some uprore were like that which lately she did vew.

   • 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., […], →OCLC:

     His attention was of new summoned.