All 7 Uses of
epoch
in
The Communist Manifesto
- In the earlier epochs of history, we find almost everywhere a complicated arrangement of society into various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank.†
- Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses, however, this distinctive feature: it has simplified the class antagonisms.†
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- Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses, however, this distinctive feature: it has simplified the class antagonisms.†
- Constant revolutionising of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones.†
- In these crises there breaks out an epidemic that, in all earlier epochs, would have seemed an absurdity--the epidemic of over-production.†
- The history of all past society has consisted in the development of class antagonisms, antagonisms that assumed different forms at different epochs.†
- The first direct attempts of the proletariat to attain its own ends, made in times of universal excitement, when feudal society was being overthrown, these attempts necessarily failed, owing to the then undeveloped state of the proletariat, as well as to the absence of the economic conditions for its emancipation, conditions that had yet to be produced, and could be produced by the impending bourgeois epoch alone.†
Definition:
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(epoch) a significant period of timeThe exact meaning of epoch depends upon its context. For example:
- "an epoch of scientific discovery" -- an historical period
- "during the Late Jurassic epoch" -- a unit of geological time smaller than a period and larger than an age
- "the epoch moment of the photo" -- the time of an astronomical measurement