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Definition of Age of reason
1. Noun. A movement in Europe from about 1650 until 1800 that advocated the use of reason and individualism instead of tradition and established doctrine. "The Enlightenment brought about many humanitarian reforms"
Generic synonyms: Reform Movement
Generic synonyms: Age, Historic Period
Definition of Age of reason
1. Noun. (context: Roman Catholic theology) Seven years of age, at which age a person is morally liable for the sins that he or she commits. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Age Of Reason
Literary usage of Age of reason
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century by Leslie Stephen (1902)
"Paine's ' Age of Reason ' bears visible traces of the time of its composition.
The manuscript of the first part was entrusted to a friend, ..."
2. A Short History of Science by William Thompson Sedgwick, Harry Walter Tyler (1917)
"NATURAL THEOLOGY AND AN age of reason. — At the end of the seventeenth century
John Ray, an English zoologist, drew attention to the remarkable adaptations ..."
3. The Speeches of the Hon. Thomas Erskine: (now Lord Erskine), when at the Bar by James Ridgway, Baron Thomas Erskine Erskine (1813)
"It would be disgusting and indecent, to bring before the reader the matter
contained in the Age of Reason, even as it appears in tht terms of the Indictment ..."
4. A Survey of English Literature 1780-1880 by Oliver Elton (1920)
"THE reviewer of the romantic period must begin by calling for justice to the age
of reason ; he must, for his own sake, be fair to the first three quarters ..."
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