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Modernism - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Modernism : (noun)
1: genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious
break with previous genres
2: the quality of being current or of the present; "a shopping
mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this
village" [syn: modernity, modernness, contemporaneity,
contemporaneousness]
3: practices typical of contemporary life or thought
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Modernism : \Mod"ern*ism\, n.
Modern practice; a thing of recent date; esp., a modern usage
or mode of expression.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Modernism : \Mod"ern*ism\, n.
Certain methods and tendencies which, in Biblical questions,
apologetics, and the theory of dogma, in the endeavor to
reconcile the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church with the
conclusions of modern science, replace the authority of the
church by purely subjective criteria; -- so called officially
by Pope Pius X.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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