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latter-day

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lat·ter-day (ltr-d)
adj.
Belonging to present or recent times; modern.
latter-day
Adjective
present-day; modern
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Adj.1.latter-day - belonging to the present or recent times; "the latter-day problems of our society"
present - temporal sense; intermediate between past and future; now existing or happening or in consideration; "the present leader"; "articles for present use"; "the present topic"; "the present system"; "present observations"
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Spanish latter-day [ˈlætədeɪ] adj → moderno
German latter-day [ˈlætədeɪ] latter adj → modern
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However, to the latter-day hero, whose appetite for dragons is not keen, this absence of adventure is perhaps rather pleasurable than otherwise; and I confess that I enjoyed the days I spent on foot with Nicolete none the less because they passed in tranquil uneventfulness,--that is, without events of the violent kind.
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In ways the hee-hee council was an adumbration of the councils of primitive man, and of the great national assemblies and international conventions of latter-day man.
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`Clearly we stood among the ruins of some latter-day South Kensington
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