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
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 Walworth, Ellen H.
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
After the latter's death, in 565, it became evident that a plot was formed at Constantinople to treat Narses as his great cotemporary, Belisarius, had been treated.
From A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Taylor, Bayard
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