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Pronunciation
Verb
coining
- present participle and gerund of coin
Noun
coining (countable and uncountable, plural coinings)
- (uncountable) A form of alternative medicine from Southeast Asia where a coin is rubbed vigorously on a patient's oiled skin.
- Synonyms: kerokan, gua sha
- (countable, linguistics) A created word or phrase.
- Synonyms: coinage, neologism
1783, Hugh Blair, edited by George Edward Griffiths, The Monthly Review, volume 68, Art. V. Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres., page 499: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.
1989, G.H.R. Horsley, “The Greek Documentary Evidence and NT Lexical Study: Some Soundings”, in New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity, volume 5, →ISBN, page 77: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.
2009, Kristin Denham, Anne Lobeck, “Morphological Typology and Word Formation”, in Linguistics for Everyone: An Introduction, →ISBN, page 194: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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