novelette

[Fr.) A short novel. "The gift which made Scott spin novelettes out of the flimsiest and most casual incidents." - Pall Mall Gazette . *nov-el-ism, *nov-el-lism, s. [English novel; -ism.] Innovation. "The other three [positions) are disciplinarian in the present way of novellism."-Sir E. Dering : Speeches , p. 44. nov-el-ist, s. [Eng. novel ; -ist.] *1. An innovator; one who introduces novelties into Church and State. "Every novelist with a whirligig in his brain must broach new opinions."-Adams: Devil's Banquet , p. 52. 2. A novice. "There is not anything so easie that doth not hurt and hinder us, if we be but novelists therein."-Lennard: Of Wisdome, bk. ii., ch. vii., § 18. 3. A writer of news. 4. A writer of a novel or novels; a writer of fic tion. "The best stories of the early and original Italian novelists."-Warton: English Poetry , iii. 487.