Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A modern.
- noun One who admires or prefers that which is modern; especially, an advocate of modern learning, or of the study of modern languages, in preference to the ancient.
- noun One who holds modern views; specifically, a Roman Catholic who holds the views (modernism) condemned by Pius X. in his encyclical issued in 1907.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who admires the moderns, or their ways and fashions.
- noun An advocate of the teaching of modern subjects, as modern languages, in preference to the ancient classics.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, or relating to
modernism . - noun A
follower orproponent of modernism.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an artist who makes a deliberate break with previous styles
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Examples
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He said he also just wrote a 7,000-word essay for the journal Gastronomica explaining his use of the term "modernist."
Technology Genius Cooks Up Geoduck for 90 Marshall Heyman 2011
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Nonetheless, The Secular City was popular in modernist Christian circles, until they moved on to the next demi-prophet
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Nonetheless, The Secular City was popular in modernist Christian circles, until they moved on to the next demi-prophet
Stromata Blog: 2009
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Nonetheless, The Secular City was popular in modernist Christian circles, until they moved on to the next demi-prophet
Religion 2010
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But his most influential was to transform the way people looked at jazz, to transform the genre into a true modern art with all the complexities that can be found in modernist theater and painting.
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But his most influential was to transform the way people looked at jazz, to transform the genre into a true modern art with all the complexities that can be found in modernist theater and painting.
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The painting is the inaugural work of an outstanding exhibition at Berlin's German Historical Museum called "Cassandra: Visions of Catastrophe 1914-1945," which documents an uncanny prophetic streak in German modernist art.
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It will surprise no one to learn that the New-Critical approach to poetry that still dominates our classroom practice enshrines certain modernist preferences as general laws.
How to Save 'Tintern Abbey' from New-Critical Pedagogy (in Three Minutes Fifty-Six Seconds) 2002
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Such efforts at synthesis were paralleled by two other thrusts in Italian modernist circles.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas JOHN RATT 1968
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The name modernist then will be appropriate only when there is question of opposition to the certain teaching of ecclesiastical authority through a spirit of innovation.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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