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[ noun ] the circumstances and ideas of the present age
Synonyms Examples "behind the times" "in times like these" Used in print (William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)For in the modern_world neither `` spirit '' nor `` matter '' refer to any generally agreed-upon elements of experience . (Schubert Ogden, Christ Without Myth....)Time_and_again in counseling and teaching , one encounters members of this group whose attempts to bring into some kind of unity the insubstantial mythologies of their `` fundamentalist '' heritage and the stubborn reality of the modern_world are only_too painfully obvious . What makes this long and diverse tradition essentially one is that those who have belonged_to it have been profoundly in_earnest about being modern men in a distinctively modern_world . Related terms |
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