All 3 Uses of
contemporary
in
Angels & Demons
- The influential English poet who wrote Paradise Lost was a contemporary of Galileo's and a savant who conspiracy buffs put at the top of their list of Illuminati suspects.†
Chpt 53-54
- For a moment, hearing the verse aloud, Langdon felt transported in time …. as though he were one of Galileo's contemporaries, listening to the poem for the first time …. knowing it was a test, a map, a clue unveiling the four altars of science …. the four markers that blazed a secret path across Rome.†
Chpt 55-56 *
- Bernini was a contemporary of Galileo.†
Chpt 69-70 *
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