contemp.
Americanabbreviation
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I’m really happy just self-publishing my New Adult/Contemp novels and have heard so many horror stories about big publishing houses, but honestly it’s not fair for me to form an opinion considering I’m like a blind fish in the giant ocean of publishing.
From Forbes
Contem′plant, Contemp′latist; Contemplā′tion, continued study of a particular subject: a meditation written, or a subject for such.—adj. and n.
From Project Gutenberg
They are proud because they can walk on the ground and don't have to fly, so they got a hearty contemp for things that fly, like them insecks which they used for house lights.
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I consider her beneath my contemp'!
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A list of his works and a sketch of his mental character may be found in Vapereau, Dict. des Contemp.
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