modernness

To some extent he attained his object, but his success was limited; and his teaching affected by what I can only call a modernness of temperament in me, which no force of tradition wholly destroyed or stifled.

The King's Mirror Anthony Hope 1898

He seeks this thing which we may call modernness, for no better word to express the idea presents itself.

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864

Human civilization has grown to its present day modernness thanks to scientific advances.

Review: _Something Magic This Way Comes_ edited by Martin H. Greenberg & Sarah A. Hoyt Freedomstar 2008

Human civilization has grown to its present day modernness thanks to scientific advances.

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Characters like Martha add a modernness that the old series lacked.

The Tripods by John Christopher Dark Worlds Club 2008

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The Volokh Conspiracy » John Lott and the National Research Council’s Report.– 2004

I am struck, in reading him, with the extreme modernness of his style and spirit.

Representative Men 2006

This perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by any thing short-lived or local, but abode by real and abiding traits.

Representative Men 2006

To be sure, there were aspects of Germany he did not care for -- he found Berlin suffering from the same "modernness, ugliness, and bigness" of Boston -- and at the end of his second semester he moved to England, which he found

Dan Miller: "Harvard, We Have a Problem" 1996

It sat on a hill that gave a fantastic view of the Nile, its porch open to the breeze and offering an Old World elegance that sharply contrasted with the high-rise modernness of the New Cataract Hotel that adjoined it.

From This Beloved Hour Lambert, Willa 1982