modern period
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmodernandperiod
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modern
adjective
uk/ˈmɒd.ən/us/ˈmɑː.dɚn/
designed and made using the most recent ideas ...
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period
noun[C]
uk/ˈpɪə.ri.əd/us/ˈpɪr.i.əd/
a length ...
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(Definition ofmodernandperiodfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofmodern period
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In the earlymodernperiodsome significant themes emerge.
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An introduction to theology in the earlymodernperiod.
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In themodernperiod, this argument did not disappear.
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The remaining chapters deal primarily with themodernperiod.
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Various representations thus coexisted in the earlymodernperiod, only to expand as time passed.
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This represents a form of rural reformational republicanism of the earlymodernperiod.
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European urban governments managed their debts during the late middle ages and the earlymodernperiod.
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The relationships were quite different at the beginning of themodernperiod.
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Throughout the earlymodernperiod, traditional ideas and institutions were being challenged.
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Perhaps the most interesting chapters are the last three, dealing with themodernperiod.
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In the earlymodernperiodthere was a significant development of trade across national borders.
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Unfortunately the first chapter is disappointing in its failure to focus on the earlymodernperiod.
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Together they contribute to a particular form that enchantment takes in themodernperiod.
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Certainly the earlymodernperiodsaw the development of different cultural styles of engaging with texts.
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The author is on firmer ground when he deals with themodernperiod.
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First, the proportion of widows remarrying declined during the earlymodernperiod.
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This practice sometimes even remained alive until far into themodernperiod.
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We possess no bibliography of sermons for the earlymodernperiod.
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In fact, nearly all eighteenth-century imperial institutions originated in the earlymodernperiod.
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This is an important book for all social historians of the earlymodernperiod.
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There were, however, other enterprises in the earlymodernperioddevoted to the understanding and manipulation of the physical world.
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The civic ritual of the principal cities increased during the earlymodernperiodthrough the expansion of the universities.
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It is to be hoped that he might compile a second volume which focuses on themodernperiod.
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