new-made

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Adjective

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new-made (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of newmade
    • 1828, Matthew Henry, J.B Williams, Exposition of the Old and New Testament - Volume 3:
      but how meanly soever they thought of him, they were resolved thus to curry favour with him, and strengthen the new-made peace between him and them.
    • 1839 -, Charles McIntosh, The new and improved Practical gardener:
      After stating thus much relative to this class of strawberries, it can hardly be necessary for me to point out the necessity of closely examining all new-made beds of them, and of entirely extirpating those worse than useless sterile plants.
    • 2012, Jacob Grimm, Teutonic Mythology, page 1143:
      the builders, to avert the calamity, kill a lamb or a black cock on the stone, just as at Frankfort they made a cock run across the new-made bridge, DS. no. 185.

Verb

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new-made

  1. simple past and past participle of new-make

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