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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

currentness modern

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