Coining

Definitions

1. A form of alternative medicine from Southeast Asia where a coin is rubbed vigorously on a patient's oiled skin.
   uncountable
2. A created word or phrase.
   countable

Equivalents

Examples

“Poetry admits of greater latitude than proſe, which with reſpect to coining, or, at leaſt, new-compounding words; yet, even here, this liberty ſhould be uſed with a ſparing hand.”

“Once we move⟳ into the Patristic period, there is undoubted evidence for new coinings of words (particularly compounds) as a response to the needs of the theological debates which occurred.”

“Coinings or neologisms are words that have⟳ recently been created. […] True coinings, which are completely new words, are rather rare relative to the vast number⟳ of words we create⟳ by means of the other word formation processes.”

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