Both Uses of
contemporary
in
Abraham Lincoln and the Self-Made Myth
- Lincoln's democracy was not broad enough to transcend color lines, but on this score it had more latitude than the democracy professed by many of his neighbors and contemporaries.†
Subsection 3 *
- These men had said that Northern industrialism was brutal 12 Historians are in general agreement with such contemporaries of Lincoln as Clay, Webster, Douglas, and Hammond that the natural limits of slavery expansion in the continental United States had already been reached.†
Subsection 4
Definition:
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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