Latter-day

//ˈlætə(ɹ)deɪ// adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Modern, recent. not-comparable

    "He thinks of himself as a latter-day knight errant, out on a quest fighting dragons. It’s not very practical, but it is romantic."

  2. 2
    Of or relating to the last days or end times in various eschatologies. not-comparable
Adjective
  1. 1
    belonging to the present or recent times wordnet

Synonyms

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later-day

Example

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"Many a gentleman of the old school has been provoked to remark regretfully upon the under-bred manners and bearing of even the better classes in the modern industrial communities; and the decay of the ceremonial code—or as it is otherwise called, the vulgarisation of life—among the industrial classes proper has become one of the chief enormities of latter-day civilisation in the eyes of all persons of delicate sensibilities."

Etymology

From latter (“close or closer to the present time”) + day.

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Latter-day Saint

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