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
No cotemporary of the boy, excepting impressible, wayward Powell, seems ever to have suspected the little one as being the giant rogue.
From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Putnam, Allen
And accordingly Constantine and cotemporary Christians celebrated the twenty-fifth of March with great eclat as the date of the resurrection.
From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Graves, Kersey
Some of Mather’s statements and doings which were slurred even by his cotemporary Calef, and have been by later writers also, may deserve more respectful consideration than has usually been accorded to them.
From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Putnam, Allen
A cotemporary MS. of part of the first book, also preserved at Durham.
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