All 14 Uses of
novel
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- Neither were they meant to bear reference to each other, so much as to the object on whom they were bestowed, as will be seen in the present case: a peacock with a turned-up nose being a novelty in ornithology, and a thing not commonly seen.†
Chpt 9 (definition 1)
- Now, a proud usher in a Yorkshire school was such a very extraordinary and unaccountable thing to hear of,—any usher at all being a novelty; but a proud one, a being of whose existence the wildest imagination could never have dreamed—that Miss Squeers, who seldom troubled herself with scholastic matters, inquired with much curiosity who this Knuckleboy was, that gave himself such airs.†
Chpt 9 (definition 1)
- …and towards the full perfection of which, Miss La Creevy had had the street-door case brought upstairs, in order that she might be the better able to infuse into the counterfeit countenance of Miss Nickleby, a bright salmon flesh-tint which she had originally hit upon while executing the miniature of a young officer therein contained, and which bright salmon flesh-tint was considered, by Miss La Creevy's chief friends and patrons, to be quite a novelty in art: as indeed it was.†
Chpt 10 (definition 1)
- He is a wonderfully accomplished man—most extraordinarily accomplished—reads—hem—reads every novel that comes out; I mean every novel that—hem—that has any fashion in it, of course.†
Chpt 18 (definition 1) *
- He is a wonderfully accomplished man—most extraordinarily accomplished—reads—hem—reads every novel that comes out; I mean every novel that—hem—that has any fashion in it, of course.†
Chpt 18 (definition 1)
- I want a novelty.'†
Chpt 22 (definition 1)
- 'I've got another novelty, Johnson,' said Mr Crummles one morning in great glee.†
Chpt 25 (definition 1)
- Some other novelty will spring up one day, and you will be released.†
Chpt 28 (definition 1)
- A novelty would be very desirable.†
Chpt 30 (definition 1)
- 'There's inconveniency in it, but the novelty gives it a sort of relish, too!'†
Chpt 38 (definition 1)
- …man's house at such a time, and persisting in remaining there, must be his being kicked into the streets and dragged through them like the vagabond he is—this fellow, mark you, brings with him his sister as a protection, thinking we would not expose a silly girl to the degradation and indignity which is no novelty to him; and, even after I have warned her of what must ensue, he still keeps her by him, as you see, and clings to her apron-strings like a cowardly boy to his mother's.†
Chpt 54 (definition 1)
- When the first novelty of the meeting had worn off, and they began truly to feel how happy they were, the conversation became more general, and the harmony and pleasure if possible increased.†
Chpt 63 (definition 1)
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- It was four in the afternoon—that is, the vulgar afternoon of the sun and the clock—and Mrs Wititterly reclined, according to custom, on the drawing-room sofa, while Kate read aloud a new novel in three volumes, entitled 'The Lady Flabella,' which Alphonse the doubtful had procured from the library that very morning.†
Chpt 28 (definition 2)
- Accordingly Mrs Wititterly broke ground next morning, during a pause in the novel-reading.†
Chpt 28 (definition 2) *
Definitions:
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(1) (novel as in: a novel situation) new and original -- typically something considered good
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(2) (meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) More commonly, novel is used as a noun to refer to work of fiction that is published as a book. In the form novelty, the word can refer to an inexpensive, mass-produced item of interest such as a toy, trinket, or item given away to advertise.