The neologisms are not so audacious; the images are more schematic; the whole poem is calmer and more clarified.
Most of the existing discussions of slang spend themselves upon efforts to define it, and, in particular, upon efforts to differentiate it from idiomatic neologisms of a more legitimate type.
For the student interested in the biology of language, as opposed to its paleontology, there is endless material in the racy neologisms of American, and particularly in its new compounds and novel verbs.
The incessant neologisms of the national speech sweep the whole country almost instantly, and the iconoclastic changes which its popular spoken form are undergoing show themselves from coast to coast.
A great swarm of neologisms thus arose, and, as in the previous case, they were chiefly compounds.
From being the most childishly prudish of all writers about neologisms and the mot propre, the French prose writer has become the most clumsily promiscuous in his vocabulary.
Oresme was a good writer, and particularly dexterous in adopting neologisms necessary for his purpose.
Neologisms not allowed here,' 'All persons using slang, or trespassing in pursuit of originality.
Since that day neologisms have fertilised the barrenness of our Saxon, and the finest geniuses in Europe have abandoned the language of Cicero, to transfuse its grace into an idiom whose penury was deemed too rude for the pen of the scholar.
Moliere ridiculed some neologisms of the Precieuses of his day; but we are too apt to ridicule that which is new, and which we often adopt when it becomes old.
So far as this second cause of sheer ignorance goes, the gaps in knowledge are continually resulting in slang and the addition of needless neologisms to the language.
But the neologisms of the street and the saloon rarely supply any occasion of this kind.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "neologisms" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
