Both Uses of
contemporary
in
Jane Eyre
- I have alluded to him, Reader, because I think I see in him an intellect profounder and more unique than his contemporaries have yet recognised; because I regard him as the first social regenerator of the day — as the very master of that working corps who would restore to rectitude the warped system of things; because I think no commentator on his writings has yet found the comparison that suits him, the terms which rightly characterise his talent.†
Chpt Pref. *
- "Yet," I reflected, "she has been young once; her youth would be contemporary with her master's: Mrs. Fairfax told me once, she had lived here many years.†
Chpt 16 *
Definitions:
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(contemporary as in: they are contemporaries) living at the same time
or:
something occurring in the same period of time as something else
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(contemporary as in: contemporary design) characteristic of or belonging to the present time