Definition of "novelty" []

• The quality of being novel; newness. (noun)
• Something new and unusual; an innovation. (noun)
• A small mass-produced article, such as a toy or trinket. (noun)

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• "From my testimony then about myself, if you believe it, judge of others also who are Catholics: we do not find the difficulties which you do in the doctrines which we hold; we have no intellectual difficulty in that doctrine in particular, which you call a novelty of this day."
• "From my testimony then about myself, if you believe it, judge of others also who are Catholics: we do not find the difficulties which you do in the doctrines which we hold; we have no intellectual difficulty in that in particular, which you call a novelty of this day."
• "The business of the world is imitation, and that which we call novelty is nothing but repetition."