coeval

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  1. adjective Originating or existing during the same period; lasting through the same era.
  2. noun One of the same era or period; a contemporary.

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  • It is inevitable that the judgments of competent and cultivated persons should flatly contradict each other, as well as those of incompetent persons; and this whether they are coeval or of different dates. —  A Study Of Hawthorne
  • The Union and the States are coeval, born together, and can exist only together. —  The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny
  • His first point, that the four camps are coeval, and his reasons for that idea, are mainly taken from Roy--he does not make this clear in his paper. —  Roman Britain in 1914
  • And the Saint instructed them in the Catholic faith, truly affirming him to be the Creator and Ruler of the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and of all that is therein; and that He had one Son, with Himself coeternal, coeval, and consubstantial--everywhere reigning, governing all things, possessing all things; and promised he also unto them that they should exchange an earthly and transitory kingdom for a heavenly and eternal kingdom; for that if they obeyed his counsel, they should unite with the Celestial King in pure and indissoluble union. —  The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings
  • In better and wiser days (whatever course they took with foreign nations) they were careful to make the elements of a methodical subordination and settlement to be coeval, and even to lay the foundations of discipline in the military. —  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12)
 

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  1. From Late Latin coaevus : co-, co- + aevum, age; see aiw- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Late Latin coœvus, of the same age (see coevous), + -al.
 

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