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- proper noun The current
date era beginningapproximately 2012 years ago in theGregorian calendar , based on theassumed birth ofJesus Christ ;Christian equivalent ofCommon Era , based onanno Domini .
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The term Christian Era appears to be much older, and it is listed in all the major dictionaries, including Merriam-Webster's, American Heritage, and Compact Oxford English
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The term Christian Era appears to be much older, and it is listed in all the major dictionaries, including Merriam-Webster's, American Heritage, and Compact Oxford English Dictionary.
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According to Islamic lore, in the year 610 of the Christian Era, a certain Abu l-Qasim Muhammad ibn 'Abd Allāh al-Hashimi al-Qurashi was ordered by the Archangel Jabril to read out loud from a book that didn't yet exist.
Eric Lurio: Notes on the Iran/Persia Conflict: A Travelogue -- Part Four 2009
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Through close reading of original biblical texts and concurrent writings, he proves that the violent prohibitions against gay sex were biblical add-ons, introduced in translation as tolerance for gays waned between the Christian Era and the end of the Middle Ages.
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De Roover, however, has a different understanding of the common mind of the Christian Era as regards prices and economic activity in general.
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The twenty-first century rediscovered an experience of the nineteenth and of the first centuries of the Christian Era, a discovery that was also made by Alexander the Great, that it is much easier to build great modern cities in new places than to modernize the old centres of activity.
The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006
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Ahmed and Hafsah flourished in the sixth century of the Hegira, the twelfth of the Christian Era.
The Alhambra 2002
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Ahmed and Hafsah flourished in the sixth century of the Hegira, the twelfth of the Christian Era.
The Alhambra 2002
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[K] It is sufficient to indicate the figure 9, as we know that it could not have been the year 9 of the Christian Era, and as it was somewhere about the beginning of this century, the figure 9 makes an indefinite impression definite and exact.
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As to Date-words, just _before_ the Christian Era you may use an initial
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