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adjective

Contemporary adj.

Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous. "This king (Henry VIII.) was contemporary with the greatest monarchs of Europe."

Of the same age; coeval. "A grove born with himself he sees, And loves his old contemporary trees."

noun

Contemporary n. (pl. contemporaries)

One who lives at the same time with another; as, Petrarch and Chaucer were contemporaries.

A person of nearly the same age as another.

Synonyms: coeval.

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Etymology of 'Contemporary'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... promoting that uniformity in all parts of Public Worship which had been enjoined by statute, and under the large notions of the royal supremacy which then prevailed. They may fairly be considered as affording evidence of the contemporary practice, and of the intention of the authors of the Prayer Book in matters of rites and ceremonies. Persons who yield the amount of authority to these Injunctions (which never became law) which is readily given to others (which were law), consider that candles upon the ...

— The Church Handy Dictionary • Anonymous

... The contemporary writers, moreover, some of whom were ocular witnesses of the elections both of Leo IV. and Benedict III., make no mention whatever of the circumstance; and it is well known that at Athens, where she is stated to have studied, no such school ...

— Notes and Queries, Number 81, May 17, 1851 • Various

... were famous in an earlier era are now names packed away in the lavender of remembrance. Today the city has new theatres of imposing appearance and large seating capacity. The old stage personalities, however, troop through the writings of contemporary ...

— Fascinating San Francisco • Fred Brandt and Andrew Y. Wood

... read this, and other letters breathing the same spirit, without being convinced that Cromwell fully shared in those fanatical sentiments which prompted the army to insist upon the king's death. A contemporary account, from which Mr Carlyle, some pages before this letter occurs, has quoted largely, represents this chief of the Puritans in exactly the same point of view. The officers of the army had made certain overtures to ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 • Various

... told by a surviving contemporary (who enclosed a portrait of him along with the description), was a man of slightly less than middle height, but with broadish shoulders, limbs well put together, and long fingers. He had a rather swarthy face, with black hair, and a beard a span and a half long, also black, but latterly turning ...

— John Knox • A. Taylor Innes

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