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Christian era

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Christian era
n.
The period beginning with the birth of Jesus.
Christian Era
Noun
the period beginning with the year of Christ's birth
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Noun1.Christian era - the time period beginning with the supposed year of Christ's birth
Common era
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It was for the Mediterranean sailors that fair-haired sirens sang among the black rocks seething in white foam and mysterious voices spoke in the darkness above the moving wave - voices menacing, seductive, or prophetic, like that voice heard at the beginning of the Christian era by the master of an African vessel in the Gulf of Syrta, whose calm nights are full of strange murmurs and flitting shadows.
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
** This obscure reference applies to a blind negro musician who took the world by storm in the latter half of the nineteenth century of the Christian Era.
The Iron Heel by London, Jack View in context
Phaedrus, a slave by birth or by subsequent misfortunes, and admitted by Augustus to the honors of a freedman, imitated many of these fables in Latin iambics about the commencement of the Christian era.
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