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‖ modernus|məˈdɜːnəs|
Pl. moderni.
[L.]
A modern person; someone who is characterized by, or notable for, his modernity.
1953W. R. Trask tr. Curtius's European Lit. ii. xiii. 490 He is a modernus and considers that the ancients had loaded down their poetic narratives with a superfluity of similes, rhetorical figures, and digressions... These moderni of 1175..either consciously break with the theory of imitatio or restrict it very considerably. 1962M. McLuhan Gutenberg Galaxy 183 Francis Bacon, PR voice for the moderni, had both his feet in the Middle Ages. |