Both Uses of
contemporary
in
The Age of Innocence
- "Now we're coming to hard facts," he thought, conscious in himself of the same instinctive recoil that he had so often criticised in his mother and her contemporaries.†
Chpt 12 *
- "Ah, Jane Merry is one of US," said Mrs. Archer sighing, as if it were not such an enviable thing to be in an age when ladies were beginning to flaunt abroad their Paris dresses as soon as they were out of the Custom House, instead of letting them mellow under lock and key, in the manner of Mrs. Archer's contemporaries.†
Chpt 26
Definition:
-
(contemporary as in: they are contemporaries) living at the same time
or:
something occurring in the same period of time as something else