All 12 Uses of
novel
in
Atonement, by Ian McEwan
- The scene was novel, the spectators were an unusual element, but the dilemma was familiar enough: how to keep the peace and not humiliate her mother.†
Chpt 1 *novel = new and original
- The underwater lights, installed that spring, were still a novelty.†
Chpt 1novelty = the quality of being new and original
- Freedom was still a novelty.†
Chpt 2
- Now he was used to such things, a roadside commonplace, but back then, before the coarsening and general numbness, when it was a novelty and when everything was new, he felt it sharply.†
Chpt 2
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- He was thinking of the nineteenth-century novel.†
Chpt 1
- The novel of the future would be unlike anything in the past.†
Chpt 3
- Throughout the day, up and down the ward, along the corridors, Briony felt her familiar guilt pursue her with a novel vibrancy.†
Chpt 3
- The evasions of her little novel were exactly those of her life.†
Chpt 3
- I promised to read the typescript novel of someone's absent son.†
Chpt 3
- I've been thinking about my last novel, the one that should have been my first.†
Chpt 3
- When I am dead, and the Marshalls are dead, and the novel is finally published, we will only exist as my inventions.†
Chpt 3 *
- No one will care what events and which individuals were misrepresented to make a novel.†
Chpt 3
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) meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus:
More commonly, novel is used as a noun to refer to a 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.