What sets him apart from so many of his contemporaries was his rare immunity from the influence of prevailing ideas.
Some of the authors most revered by their contemporaries now languish in relative obscurity.
Cummings, however, has proven far more controversial and arguably less palatable than her contemporaries.
In all likelihood, he was—like his disciples and contemporaries—dark-haired, dark-eyed, and olive-skinned.
DS: Your work has a religious quality to it that marks it as very different from a host of good work by your contemporaries.
As Lizzie put it, Sarah's appearance was an outrage on her contemporaries.
But Gaspare's fate had been easier than that of most of his contemporaries and friends of Marechiaro.
He is the true countryman of his contemporaries Goethe and Schiller.
But in truth he is trying to get rid of the stumbling-blocks of thought which beset his contemporaries.
The irony of Socrates places him above and beyond the errors of his contemporaries.
"one who lives at the same time as another," 1630s, originally cotemporary, from co- + temporary; modified by influence of contemporary (adj.). Replacing native time-fellow (1570s).
