Age of Reason
Americannoun
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any period in history, especially the 18th century in France, England, etc., characterized by a critical approach to religious, social, and philosophical matters that seeks to repudiate beliefs or systems not based on or justifiable by reason.
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age of reason, the age at which a person is considered capable of distinguishing between right and wrong.
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Example Sentences
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While Newton and Locke were ushering in an Age of Reason in Europe, over in America unreason was taking new seductive forms.
From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2017
They imagine it as a scene straight from the Age of Reason, a time when rationality and virtue ruled the day.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 5, 2016
This was a time when science was displacing superstition, the dawn of the Age of Reason.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2014
It is not for nothing that the Enlightenment, when atheism truly began to take hold, was also known as the Age of Reason.
From Salon ● Jan. 11, 2014
In the ever-recurring controversies concerning Paine and his "Age of Reason" we have heard many triumphal claims.
From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England by Moncure Daniel Conway
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