Common Era

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Com·mon Era (k

n. Abbr. C.E.

The period coinciding with the Christian era.

Common Era

(Historical Terms) another name for Christian Era

Common Era

The period beginning with the year traditionally thought to have been birth of Jesus.

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Noun	1.	Common era - the time period beginning with the supposed year of Christ's birth Christian era
Adv.	1.	Common Era - of the period coinciding with the Christian era; preferred by some writers who are not Christians; "in 200 CE" C.E., CE

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Christian era

Well, no, actually: In the beginning of the common era, there was not even one Christianity but only Greco-Roman Jewry, whose monotheism, even in its proto-Christian guise, the polytheistic majority rightly regarded as atheism vis-a-vis all gods but one.

Judas & Jesus: what did the gnostics really believe? by Miles, Jack / Commonweal

As with so many Jewish holidays and holy days, Passover is centered in the home largely because the temple was physically destroyed in the year 70 of the Common Era.

A PEOPLE'S HISTORY ON ONE PLATE by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

So I wrote by email to the pastor of the church in that town, and she handed my name to a local retiree, who sent me seven additional generations of my genealogy, going back to Peter Klein, born about 1600 of the Common Era.

Who am I? Who are we? by Klein, Ralph W. / Currents in Theology and Mission

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