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
The great rath of King Laoghaire, who was cotemporary with St Patrick, has almost entirely disappeared.
From Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland by T. O. Russell
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 Allen Putnam
A cotemporary MS. of part of the first book, also preserved at Durham.
He was, moreover, abundantly ugly, and past the meridian of life, as attested by all cotemporary writers of any authority.
From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume I (of 2) by Henry Glassford Bell
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