Both Uses of
novel
in
William Wilson
- I became aware of the figure of a youth about my own height, and habited in a white kerseymere morning frock, cut in the novel fashion of the one I myself wore at the moment.
*novel = pleasantly new and original
- Let it suffice, that among spendthrifts I out-Heroded Herod, and that, giving name to a multitude of novel follies, I added no brief appendix to the long catalogue of vices then usual in the most dissolute university of Europe.
novel = new and original
Definition:
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(novel as in: a novel situation) new and original -- typically something considered good