Coinage

//ˈkɔɪnɪd͡ʒ// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The process of coining money. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    the act of inventing a word or phrase wordnet
  3. 3
    Coins taken collectively; currency. uncountable

    "He […] threw himself on a sopha opposite the copy of a bust of the Apollo Belvidere. After one or two trivial remarks, to which I sullenly replied, he suddenly cried, looking at the bust, “I am called like that victor! Not a bad idea; the head will serve for my new coinage, and be an omen to all dutiful subjects of my future success.”"

  4. 4
    a newly invented word or phrase wordnet
  5. 5
    The creation of new words, neologizing. uncountable

    "Caution needs to be exercised in regards to claims of coinage as the data contained a number of examples of writers professing the invention of a term that had actually been in existence for many years."

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  1. 6
    coins collectively wordnet
  2. 7
    Something which has been made or invented, especially a coined word; a neologism. countable

    "As for Nash his chief aim seems to have been to vilify ; he by no means troubled himself about consistency. In Christ’s Tears over Jerusalem we find more strange expressious than he could have got out of all Harvey’s works, of which the following may serve as samples : callichrimate, Works, IV, 51 ; investurings, 72; sacrificatory, 76; delinquishment, 78; succoursuers, 116 ; intercessionate, 156 ; deplorement, 30. There are also a great number of derivatives in -ize, which are worth particular mention, e. g., unmortalize, 70 ; carionized, 75 ; oblivionize, 79 ; anatomize, 109 ; and many others. Of these some were in good use at the time, but others are obviously new coinages. There was some comment upon these particular derivatives on the appearance of the first edition of Christ’s Tears over Jerusalem, and in the second edition Nash commented upon the matter."

  3. 8
    The process of creating something new. countable, uncountable

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English coynage, from Old French coignage, from coignier. By surface analysis, coin + -age.

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