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| 1. | modern character, tendencies, or values; adherence to or sympathy with what is modern. |
| 2. | a modern usage or characteristic. |
| 3. | (initial capital letter ) Theology.
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| 4. | (sometimes initial capital letter ) a deliberate philosophical and practical estrangement or divergence from the past in the arts and literature occurring esp. in the course of the 20th century and taking form in any of various innovative movements and styles. |