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Definition of Modernists
1. modernist [n] - See also: modernist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Modernists
Literary usage of Modernists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Church Unity: Studies of Its Most Important Problems by Charles Augustus Briggs (1909)
"THE modernists The Encyclical is directed against the doctrines of the modernists.
Who are the modernists ? The name is given by the Encyclical to those ..."
2. The Number of Man, the Climax of Civilization by Philip Mauro (1910)
"order to measure the defiance and self-confidence of the modernists, the reader
should also remember that this Encyclical is published by the modernists ..."
3. The Rise of English Literary Prose by George Philip Krapp (1915)
"VIII THE modernists MODERNISM AND REALISM—REALISM IN THE DRAMA—BEN JONSON—ECONOMIC
AND SOCIAL DISCUSSION—MEDICINE AND QUACKERY—MERRY JESTS AND TALES— ROGUE ..."
4. The Programme of Modernism: A Reply to the Encyclical of Pius X., Pascendi by Alfred Leslie Lilley (1908)
"THE APOLOGETIC OF THE modernists (a) Are we Agnostics ? Discussing the philosophy
of the modernists, the Encyclical reprehends its agnostic principles, ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Through pride the modernists overestimate themselves. . . . We are not like other
men . . . they reject all submission to authority . . . they pose as ..."
6. Rome and Jerusalem: A Study in Jewish Nationalism by Moses Hess (1918)
"... Krochmal, Sachs and Heine on Judah Hale•in—Mendelssohn and the modernists—Schorr —Sectarians
without sects—Salvador—Fusionists and Freemasons—Hirsch—The ..."