Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of this day; belonging to the present day.
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- adjective rare Of or pertaining to the current day.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Literature is a point outside of our hodiernal present-day circle through which a new one may be described.
Archive 2006-12-01 Rus Bowden 2006
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Literature is a point outside of our hodiernal present-day circle through which a new one may be described.
Great Regulars: Yet something like faith Rus Bowden 2006
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My writing is for to-day, most distinctly hodiernal.
New Grub Street 2003
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Literature is a point outside of our hodiernal [present-day] circle through which a new one may be described.
The Decline and Fall of Literature Delbanco, Andrew 1999
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For, all these, of course, are exceptions; and the rule and hodiernal life of a good man is benefaction.
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Literature is a point outside of our hodiernal circle through which a new one may be described.
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Perhaps had willingly ignored it, as introducing a complication oppressive to his indolence, to his hodiernal philosophy.
In the Year of Jubilee George Gissing 1880
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Prophetical Interpretation; the Universal Wisdom of two millenaries cannot be expected to gain any thing from the passing thought of a hodiernal unit: if any fancies in my brain are really new, and hitherto unbroached upon the subject, it can scarcely be doubted but that they are false; so very little reliance do principles of catholicity allow to be placed upon "private interpretations."
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849
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Prophetical Interpretation; the Universal Wisdom of two millenaries cannot be expected to gain any thing from the passing thought of a hodiernal unit: if any fancies in my brain are really new, and hitherto unbroached upon the subject, it can scarcely be doubted but that they are false; so very little reliance do principles of catholicity allow to be placed upon "private interpretations."
An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-pages Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849
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For, all these, of course, are exceptions; and the rule and hodiernal life of a good man is benefaction.
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"My writing is for to-day, most distinctly hodiernal."
- George Gissing, New Grub Street.
January 30, 2008