newfangleness
English
    
    Etymology
    
From Middle English newfangelnesse, newfongilnes, from Old English *nīwefangelnes (compare Old English underfangelnes), equivalent to new- + fangle + -ness.
References
    
- newfangleness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Scots
    
    Etymology
    
From Middle English newfangelnesse, newfongilnes, from Old English *nīwefangelnes (compare Old English underfangelnes).
Noun
    
newfangleness (uncountable)
- newfangledness; the state of being newfangled
-  1586, Maitland, Quarto Manuscript:- To weir all thing that sinne provoikis / And all for newfangilnes of geir.- (please add an English translation of this quote)
 
 
 
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References
    
- “newfangleness” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
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