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/ˌɪnəvˈeɪʃən/ /ˌɪnoʊvˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Innovation n.

The act of innovating; introduction of something new, in customs, rites, commercial products, etc.

A change effected by innovating; a change in customs; something new, and contrary to established customs, manners, or rites. "The love of things ancient doth argue stayedness, but levity and lack of experience maketh apt unto innovations."

(Bot.) A newly formed shoot, or the annually produced addition to the stems of many mosses.

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Etymology of 'Innovation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Innovation" Quotes from Famous Books

... is politeness; dissipation, life; and levity, spirit. The miserable and contemptible drudge of every tawdry innovation in dress or ceremony, she incessantly mistakes extravagance for taste, and ...

— Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World • Anonymous

... have made the slavery question more prominent than it formerly was. We deny it. We admit that it is more prominent, but we deny that we made it so. It was not we, but you, who discarded the old policy of the fathers. We resisted and still resist your innovation; and thence comes the greater prominence of the question. Would you have that question reduced to its former proportions? Go back to that old policy. What has been will be again, under the same conditions. If you would ...

— The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Complete - Constitutional Edition • Abraham Lincoln

... escape the disagreeably conspicuous solitude he now inhabits among his fellow-officers through any of those agencies of usage and familiarity which would result if other Flippers were to follow him into the army and help to dull the edge of the innovation. Just what Flipper is to do with himself does not seem altogether clear. Even the excitement of leading his men among the redskins will be denied him, now that Spotted Tail has pacified the malcontents and Sitting Bull has retired to ...

— Henry Ossian Flipper, The Colored Cadet at West Point • Henry Ossian Flipper

... innovation," said Miss Jemima, suddenly mounting the more funereal of her two favourite hobbies, "is one of the great symptoms of the approaching crash. We are altering and mending and reforming, when in twenty years at the utmost the world ...

— My Novel, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... mistress of a large ranch in the valley, which had lately become more valuable by the extension of a wagon road through its centre. She was simply worrying whether she should go to a "sociable" ending with "a dance"—a daring innovation of some strangers—at the new hotel, or continue to eschew such follies, that were, according to local belief, unsuited to "a ...

— Under the Redwoods • Bret Harte

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