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[ noun ] the quality of being current or of the present
Examples : "a shopping mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this village" Used in print (Schubert Ogden, Christ Without Myth....)Although they have also been concerned to stand squarely within the tradition of the apostolic church , they have exhibited no willingness whatever to sacrifice their modernity to their Christianity . (J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)Utopia is still widely read because in_a_sense More stood on the margin of modernity . And if he did stand on the margins of modernity , it was not in dying a martyr for such unity as Papal supremacy might be able to force on Western Christendom . More stands on the margins of modernity for one reason alone - because he wrote Utopia . Perhaps one way to sharpen our sense of the modernity of Utopian communism is to contrast it with the principal earlier types of communistic theory . Related terms |
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