He began to write, but then, as he wrote, an entirely novel way of solving the first problem presented itself to him.
Thus, a general prohibition on private racial discrimination would have been an entirely novel legal concept in 1866.
Even more important were his sensitivity, tact and diplomacy in an entirely novel situation.
During the summer of 1902 conciliatory advances were not entirely novel.
These were entirely novel synthetic substances and no species (including man) had acquired any previous experience of them.
Herodotus's approach was entirely novel, and at least in Western society, he does seem to have invented 'history' as we know it.
The idea of creating a chief financial officer is not entirely novel.
But while crossovers have become sales leaders fairly recently, the vehicles themselves aren't an entirely novel idea.
The idea was his own and, at that time, entirely novel.
His feelings for Flicka seemed to him to be an entirely novel experience.