New English
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more New English
form: most New English
Senses: examples: text: Thirdly, since those persons in the New English plantations accounted unfit for church estate, yet remain all members of the church of England, from which New England dares not separate, no not in their sacraments (as some of the independents have published), what riddle or mystery, or rather fallacy of Satan is this!
ref: 1644, Roger Williams, The Bloudy Tenent […] ; republished as The Bloudy Tenent […] , London: J. Haddon, 1848, →OCLC, page 243:
text: […] as it was with our New-English ground when we first came over, there was scarce any man that could beleeve that English graine would grow, or that the Plow could doe any good in this woody and rocky soile.
ref: 1647, anonymous author, The Day-Breaking, if not the Sun-Rising of the Gospell with the Indians in New-England, London: Richard Cotes; republished as “The Day-Breaking […] ”, in MHS Collections, series 3, volume 4, Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1834, →OCLC, page 15:
text: May it please your highness to know, that this poor Colony of Providence Plantations, mostly consists of a birth and breeding of the providence of the Most High. We being an outcast people, formerly from our mother nations in the Bishops days, and since from the rest of the New English over zealous Colonies
ref: c. 1659, Rhode Island Court of Commissioners, [Address to Cromwell]; republished as “The Colony of Rhode Island to Richard Cromwell”, in MHS Collections, series 2, volume 7, Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1818, →OCLC, page 88:
text: Until and even after the American Revolution, the New English child was formed in the religious image of his Puritan ancestors.
ref: 1974, James Axtell, The School upon a Hill, New Haven: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 6:
text: It is an article of faith among scholars of colonial American culture that American national consciousness can be traced to the experiences of New English colonists in the latter half of the seventeenth century.
ref: 1999, Jim Egan, Authorizing Experience, Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 95:
text: King Philip's War was, however, not a war between New English colonists on the one side and Native Americans on the other but instead was a complicated intercultural conflict.
ref: 2020, Christoph Strobel, Native Americans of New England, Santa Barbara: Praeger, →ISBN, page 100:
glosses: Of or pertaining to New England.
examples: text: The New English settlers, whose numbers increased during plantation, and particularly during the land settlement of the 1650s following upon the suppression of the Irish rebellion of 1641-53, were never numerically dominant.
ref: 1991, Peter R. Newman, “New English”, in Companion to Irish History, 1603–1921, Oxford: Facts On File, →ISBN, page 132:
text: As a Catholic lawyer and land-owner with Gaelic connections, Barnewall represented everything repugnant to full extension of New English rule in Ireland.
ref: 2002 [1985], Hans S. Pawlisch, Sir John Davies and the Conquest of Ireland (Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics), 1st paperback edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 111:
text: During our period the English colonised parts of Ireland (although Old English or Anglo-Norman families were to some extent already integrated into native Irish culture and society), and certainly by the end of the sixteenth century, sought to impose English political rule over the whole island. The New English aristocrats who were now responsible for Ireland's rule more often than not did not bring their wives and families to live in Ireland.
ref: 2014 [2007], Rosemary O'Day, Women's Agency in Early Modern Britain and the American Colonies, New York: Routledge, →ISBN, page 15:
glosses: Of or pertaining to English settlers who arrived in Ireland in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Related terms: New Englishman
New Englishwoman