Definition of "new-light" [new-light]

• See New Lights, under light. (noun)
• Pomoxys annularis, a centrarehoid fish of the Mississippi river. Also called campbellite. (noun)
• Pertaining to new doctrine or to the New Lights.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Its editor is a man of fine matter-of-fact talents, and principal contributors are Brownson, the new-light philosopher, Bancroft, Whittier, Bryant,"
• "But then I have such vapours, Molly I sit and cry by myself, and take ass of etida, and smill to burnt fathers, and kindal-snuffs; and I pray constantly for grease, that I may have a glimpse of the new-light, to shew me the way through this wretched veil of tares."
• "Alexander Campbell (then called the great new-light preacher) visited Savannah, and was permitted by the pastor, Rev.A. Marshall, to preach in the church his new doctrine."