Nōv'el-ist, n.
n. 1. An innovator; an asserter of novelty. [Obs.]
Some novelists make a contracted idea of God, consisting of nothing else but will and power. Cudworth.
Sense 2. [It. novellista.] A writer of news. [Obs.]
Sense 3. [Fr. nouvelliste.] A writer of a novel, or of novels.