adjective
definition
Newly made, formed or evolved; having no precedent; of recent origin; new.
definition
Original, especially in an interesting way; new and striking; not of the typical or ordinary type.
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Examples of novel in a Sentence
Sounds like a dime novel, doesn't it?
Her first independent novel, Indiana, was written.
If you were a novel, I wouldn't read you beyond the first page.
Thereupon the power of church and state enforced by positive enactments the passive resistance of old institutions to the novel theories.
On the other hand, Chronicles has a different story with a novel prelude.
She hits the happy mean between the studied archaism of Courier's Daphnis et Cloe and the realistic patois of the later kailyard novel which for Southerners requires a glossary.
Like any good mystery novel detective, he'd bide his time.
A telephone transmitter and a receiver on a novel plan were patented in July 1877 by Edison, shortly after the introduction of Bell's instruments.
Doctors came to see her singly and in consultation, talked much in French, German, and Latin, blamed one another, and prescribed a great variety of medicines for all the diseases known to them, but the simple idea never occurred to any of them that they could not know the disease Natasha was suffering from, as no disease suffered by a live man can be known, for every living person has his own peculiarities and always has his own peculiar, personal, novel, complicated disease, unknown to medicine--not a disease of the lungs, liver, skin, heart, nerves, and so on mentioned in medical books, but a disease consisting of one of the innumerable combinations of the maladies of those organs.
I read a passage in a novel last evening as I sat by the fire, trying to wile away these idle hours.
The night in prison was novel and interesting enough.
Shortly after this was published in book form with the same signature a second novel, Rose et Blanche.
Fred O'Connor sat in the parlor, a Sue Grafton novel in his lap, snoring softly.
The descriptive parts of my novel found favour.
The 77th Novel of Justinian assigned death as the penalty, as did also the Capitularies.
Immediately after taking his degree, he read to the Cambridge Philosophical Society a very novel memoir, " On the Transformation of Surfaces by Bending."
Pierre was greatly surprised by his wife's view, to him a perfectly novel one, that every moment of his life belonged to her and to the family.
Many of his bold and novel theories have provoked strenuous opposition, while others have met with general acceptance, except among scholars of the more conservative type.
There is a touch of Byron, Swinburne and even of Schopenhauer in many of his rubais, which clearly proves that the modern pessimist is by no means a novel creature in the realm of philo- sophic thought and poetical imagination.
Chernyshev was sitting at a window in the first room with a French novel in his hand.
Rienzi's life and fate have formed the subject of a famous novel by Bulwer Lytton, of an opera by Wagner and of a tragedy by Julius Mosen.
As a novel Valentine has little to commend it; the plot is feeble and the characters shadowy.
To paint a Joan of Arc who lives and dies inglorious is the theme she sets herself, and through most of the novel it is perfectly executed.
La Fontaine dedicated to her his novel Belphegor, and Boileau immortalized her in verse.
A more entirely novel and more general principle of Kant's attack upon theism is the challenge of our right to build up the idea of God bit by bit out of different arguments.
Harrison-Ainsworth in his novel Crichton (new ed., 1892) reprints and translates some documents relating to Crichton, as well as some of his poems.
His nephew, Diego, the younger (1586-1660), produced Chauleidos (1628) and other Latin poems, including sacred dramas; a novel, Casamento Perfeito (1630); and shone as a historical critic.
His last work, Clarisse (1854), a novel, was written when he was eighty-five.
The Acts of Thomas is now generally recognized to be an original Syriac work (or " novel," as Burkitt calls it), although a Greek version also exists.
With the exception of Augustus de Morgan, Boole was probably the first English mathematician since the time of John Wallis who had also written upon logic. His novel views of logical method were due to the same profound confidence in symbolic reasoning to which he had successfully trusted in mathematical investigation.
Prince of Wolves, her first romance novel, was the result.
The author is actually satirizing the society of his time through a novel that eventually became a classic.
When Dean returned to Collingswood Avenue, Fred was knee-deep in either his notes or another mystery novel, Dean didn't notice which.
Refreshed and clean, she made herself a sandwich of lunch meat and scratched her way through half of a novel before she gave up and went to the bathroom to search for some kind of ointment.
Articles written in common soon led to a complete literary partnership, and 1831 there appeared in the Revue de Paris a joint novel entitled Prima Donna and signed Jules Sand.
In a preface to a later edition she tells us how the novel came to be written, and, though it anticipates events, this revelation of herself may best be given here.
Dumas's novel, Memoirs of a Physician, is founded on his adventures; see also a series of papers in the Dublin University Magazine, vols.
In 1880 he published his novel Haablose Slaegter (" Families without hope"), which at once aroused attention.
Like this tragedy, The Broken Heart was probably founded upon some Italian or other novel of the day; but since in the latter instance there is nothing revolting in the main idea of the subject, the play commends itself as the most enjoyable, while, in respect of many excellences, an unsurpassed specimen of Ford's dramatic genius.
In the present instance the novel details cannot be lightly brushed aside.
A spirited description of the glories of the exilarch is given in D'Israeli's novel Alroy.
The conception of such a process as has now come to be called by the name of evolution was certainly not novel; but except to two men the way in which that process was or could be possible had not been revealed.
In the east of Iran the novel creed first acquired a solid footing, and subsequently reacted with success upon the West.
There is, however, nothing novel or mysterious about it.
These still indicate communication with Egypt and the north (Syria, Asia Minor; Assyria and the Levant not excluded), and even when a novel culture presents itself, as in certain graves at Gezer, the affinities are with Cyprus and Asia Minor (Caria) of about the r rth or 10th century.'
Kazantzakis's classic novel, blacklisted by the Vatican, filmed by Scorsese, has been labeled heretical, blasphemous and a masterpiece.
We therefore hypothesize that elevated t-PA antigen may be a novel mechanism contributing to increased cardiovascular risk in South Asians.
His next novel is ' The Killing Circle ', a gripping psychological thriller about a mysterious, possibly murderous, book group.
For this we are using molecular modeling to investigate docking of the novel compounds, as well as conventional mutagenesis and expression techniques.
My work is a novel study into the effects of incorporating antimony into strained silicon.