KJV Dictionary Definition: new

new

NEW, a.

1. Lately made, invented, produced or come into being; that has existed a short time only; recent in origin; novel; opposed to old, and used of things; as a new coat; a new house; a new book; a new fashion; a new theory; the new chimistry; a new discovery.

2. Lately introduced to our knowledge; not before known; recently discovered; as a new metal; a new species of animals or plants found in foreign countries; the new continent.

3. Modern; not ancient.

4. Recently produced by change; as a new life.

Put on the new man. Ephesians 4.

5. Not habituated; not familiar; unaccustomed.

Heretics and such as instill their poison into new minds.

New to the plough, unpracticed in the trace.

6. Renovated; repaired so as to recover the first state.

Men, after long emaciating diets, wax plump, fat and almost new.

7. Fresh after any event.

New from her sickness to that northern air.

8. Not of ancient extraction or a family of ancient distinction.

By superior capacity and extensive knowledge, a new man often mounts to favor.

9. Not before used; strange; unknown.

They shall speak with new tongues. Mark 16.

10. Recently commenced; as the new year.

11. Having passed the change or conjunction with the sun; as the new moon.

12. Not cleared and cultivated, or lately cleared; as new land.

13. That has lately appeared for the first time; as a new star.

New is much used in composition to qualify other words, and always bears its true sense of late, recent, novel, fresh; as in new-born, new-made, new-grown, new-formed, new-found. In this use, new may be considered as adverbial, or as a part of the compound.

NEW, v.t. To make new. Not used.

newing

NEWING, n. Yeast or barm.

newness

NEWNESS, n.

1. Lateness of origin; recentness; state of being lately invented or produced; as the newness of a dress; the newness of a system.

2. Novelty; the state of being first known or introduced. The newness of the scene was very gratifying.

3. Innovation; recent change.

And happy newness that intends old right.

4. Want of practice or familiarity.

His newness shamed most of the others long exercise.

5. Different state or qualities introduced by change or regeneration.

Even so we also should walk in newness of life. Romans 6.

news

NEWS, n. From new; This word has a plural form, but is almost always united with a verb in the singular.

1. Recent account; fresh information of something that has lately taken place at a distance, or of something before unknown; tidings. We have news from Constantinople. News has just arrived. This news is favorable.

Evil news rides fast, while good news baits.

It is no news for the weak and poor to be a prey to the strong and rich.

2. A newspaper.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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