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1 —1 use as in:
a novel situation
Definition
new and original — typically something considered good
- There is something distinctly novel about some of the features.Adventure XII — The Adventure of the Copper Beeches (31% in)
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- "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold to have been novel and of interest."Adventure XII — The Adventure of the Copper Beeches (7% in)
- Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him.Adventure XII — The Adventure of the Copper Beeches (55% in)
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