Novels

/ (ˈnɒvəlz) /

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Roman law the new statutes of Justinian and succeeding emperors supplementing the Institutes, Digest, and Code: now forming part of the Corpus Juris Civilis

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Word Origin for Novels

Latin Novellae (constitūtiōnēs) new (laws)

Words nearby Novels

novelist, novelistic, novelize, novella, Novello, Novels, novelty, November, novemdecillion, novena, novercal

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How to use Novels in a sentence

The Daily Beast selects, in no particular order, our nominations for the best stories and novels published in 2014.
The Best Fiction of 2014: Ford, Ferrante, Klay, and More|William O’Connor|December 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Imagining novels as biological specimens creates a crazed and mythic zoology of hybrids, beasts, mutants, and aberrations.
The Birth of the Novel|Nick Romeo|November 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
She avoids an exhaustively descriptive definition because she opposes condemning all novels based on the flaws of some novels.
The Birth of the Novel|Nick Romeo|November 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Austen is perfectly aware that many books called novels do not display “the greatest powers of the mind.”
The Birth of the Novel|Nick Romeo|November 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST

It might seem obvious to say that novels are “fictitious,” but certain ones are composed almost entirely of facts.
The Birth of the Novel|Nick Romeo|November 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
If you do not give up thinking and take to nonsense and novels, I shall be called to take you through a nervous fever.
Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline|Jennie M. Drinkwater
Many novels are hurtful because of the many false ideas interwoven in the stories.
The value of a praying mother|Isabel C. Byrum
He wrote novels with extreme rapidity and, consequently, he did not take time for literary refinement as many authors do.
Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia|Dorothy M. Torpey
In her novels, Miss Glasgow presents a social history of Virginia from about 1851 to 1945.
Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia|Dorothy M. Torpey
Such a description would not now be tolerated in one of our most insipid novels.
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 1 (of 10)|Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)