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modernist

[ mod-er-nist ]

noun

  1. a person who follows or favors modern ways, tendencies, etc.
  2. a person who advocates the study of modern subjects in preference to ancient classics.
  3. an adherent of modernism in theological questions.


adjective

  1. of modernists or modernism.
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • t·ǻİ· noun adjective
  • p·ǻİ· noun
  • ·ǻİ· adjective noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of modernist1

First recorded in 1580–90; modern + -ist
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The narrator, a reader with siblings and a penchant for run-on sentences, brings a modernist sensibility to the texture of her daily life.

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But “Ulysses,” the modernist novel that changed the course of 20th century literature, is notoriously demanding.

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Its 13 vignettes - vivid snapshots of Indian village life - reflect his distinctive blend of Indian folk traditions and modernist influences.

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His Bucharest flat, a modernist gem, is a mini museum "dedicated to gay memory".

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Waste Land is the title of my new book, which is based on the great modernist poem by T. S. Eliot, “The Waste Land,” published in 1922.

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