Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Existence at the same time; contemporaneousness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Existence at the same time; contemporaneousness.
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- noun The state or quality of being
contemporary .
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Examples
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Most remarkably, for the majority of them the fact that Keats was writing when he was roughly their age strikes a crucial chord, and this perceived sense of contemporariness makes their study of Keats different from their perception of, for instance, Wordsworth and Coleridge, the two other major authors in the course.
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He has written more than 25 plays with different subjects depicting the social, political and cultural contemporariness.
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It also lacks certain desirable values in terms of contemporariness and global outlook
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_mere_ ordinariness and contemporariness that the result may be distasteful, if not sickening, to future ages.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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With her focus on the tower, she didn’t notice the contemporariness of the thought.
Hamlet II: Ophelia’s Revenge David Bergantino 2003
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Yet notwithstanding the thorough knowledge of the subject displayed by this cartographer, his French nationality, and the contemporariness of his labors with the reign of Francis, "no evidence," as Mr.K. further observes, "appears that the report or chart of the French commander,
The Voyage of Verrazzano A Chapter in the Early History of Maritime Discovery in America Henry Cruse Murphy 1846
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