cotemporary
Britishadjective
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Would Lorin Stein, the editor of the Paris Review, still have declared in the New York Times book review that it “solved a big problem of the cotemporary novel?”
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2014
We look in vain," says a writer, "for any cotemporary notice of the Gospels, or Christ the subject of the Gospels, outside of the New Testament.
From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Graves, Kersey
She was Queen of Connacht, and was cotemporary with Cleopatra; but if the Egyptian queen is mentioned in history she is forgotten in legend, while Mab has lived in legend for more than eighteen centuries.
From Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland by Russell, T. O.
A cotemporary MS. of part of the first book, also preserved at Durham.
His success in so many departments proves that had he cultivated but one or two, he might have surpassed all cotemporary competition.
From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Stanton, Henry B.
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