promodernist
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Promodernist
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modernism (ˈmɒdəˌnɪzəm) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | modern tendencies, characteristics, thoughts, etc, or the support of these |
| 2. | something typical of contemporary life or thought |
| 3. | See International Style a 20th-century divergence in the arts from previous traditions, esp in architecture |
| 4. | (capital) RC Church the movement at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries that sought to adapt doctrine to the supposed requirements of modern thought |
| 'modernist | |
| —n, —adj | |
| modern'istic | |
| —adj | |
| modern'istically | |
| —adv | |
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