of new

English

Etymology

From of + new; compare Late Latin de novo, French de nouveau.

Adverb

of new (not comparable)

(obsolete) Once again; anew. [10th–19th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  Pastorell through great affright / Was almost dead, misdoubting least of-new / Some uprore were like that which lately she did vew.
- 1827, Walter Scott, the Life of Napoleon Buonaparte:
  His attention was of new summoned.

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