Cotemporary
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Cotemporary is an adjective meaning (now rare, nonstandard) Alternative form of contemporary.
Meaning
(now rare, nonstandard) Alternative form of contemporary.
Example Sentences
The delusion of the young woman herself, and the envy of the cotemporary belles, sometimes lasted till the removal of the corps to another station […].
'I have heard from some of his cotemporaries that he was generally seen lounging at the College gate, with a circle of young students round him, whom he was entertaining with wit, and keeping from their studies, if not spiriting them up to rebellion against the College discipline, which in his maturer years he so much extolled.'
Uneasy at your present Condition for Reasons which threaten your unhappy Posterity with still greater Uneasyness, you will perhaps wish it were in your Power to go back; and this Sentiment ought to be considered, as the Panegyrick of your first Parents, the Condemnation of your Cotemporaries, and a Source of Terror to all those, who may have the Misfortune of succeeding you.
Word Forms
- cotemporaries
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include coaeval, coaetaneous, non-modern, non-temporary, spatio-temporal, conterminous.
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