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cotemporary

British  
/ kəʊˈtɛmpərərɪ /

adjective

  1. a variant of contemporary

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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 passage is taken from the prophet Micah, who was a cotemporary with Jeremiah, and prophesied under the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

From The Christ Of Paul Or, The Enigmas of Christianity by George Reber

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

The following typos have been corrected: p. vi — "Hotel" twice amended to "Hôtel". p. viii — "cotemporary" amended to "contemporary". p.

From The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha The Lily of the Mohawks by Ellen H. Walworth

To him the preceding arguments that the spirit can not have existed prior to birth, and has a common, a cotemporary origin with the physical body, is fatal to its existence after death.

From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Hudson Tuttle

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