All 3 Uses of
contemporary
in
Of Human Bondage
- Philip was born a generation after this great book was published, and much that horrified its contemporaries had passed into the feeling of the time, so that he was able to accept it with a joyful heart.†
Chpt 53-54 *contemporaries = people who live or lived at the same time
- The H.P. with whom Philip came in contact was a dapper little man, excessively conscious of his importance: he treated the clerks with condescension and patently resented the familiarity of older students who had been his contemporaries and did not use him with the respect he felt his present position demanded.†
Chpt 81-82
- He had been away from the hospital for so long that he found himself very largely among new people; the men of different years had little to do with one another, and his contemporaries were now mostly qualified: some had left to take up assistantships or posts in country hospitals and infirmaries, and some held appointments at St. Luke's.†
Chpt 115-116
Definitions:
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(1)
(contemporary as in: contemporary design) characteristic of or belonging to the present time
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(2)
(contemporary as in: they are contemporaries) living at the same time
or:
something occurring in the same period of time as something else