modernism
noun
modern character, tendencies, or values; adherence to or sympathy with what is modern.
modernistically
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a word derived from
modernism.
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a word derived from
modernistic.
Example Sentences
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Charles Palliser does not resuscitate this old form -- which stretched from Jane Austen to Thomas Hardy -- in order to play modernistically with its conventions, as John Fowles did in The French Lieutenant's Woman.
From Time Magazine Archive
The rector spoke, modernistically, then made an appeal for money for new hymnals, since the old ones had been stolen by souvenir-seekers.
From Time Magazine Archive
The room they saw modernistically designed by Junior Leaguer Mrs. George Draper is bright, undeniably attractive.
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