Coeval

Word COEVAL
Character 6
Hyphenation co e val
Pronunciations /kəʊˈiːvəl/

Definitions and meanings of "Coeval"

What do we mean by coeval?

Originating or existing during the same period; lasting through the same era. adjective

One of the same era or period; a contemporary. noun

Of the same age; having lived for an equal period.

Existing from the same point of time; coincident in duration: followed by with, sometimes by to.

Coincident in time; contemporary; synchronous: followed by with.

Synonyms Coeval, Contemporaneous. Coeval is more commonly applied to things, contemporaneous to persons; but the distinction is not a rigid one.

One of the same age or period; a contemporary in age or active existence. noun

One of the same age; a contemporary. noun

Of the same age; existing during the same period of time, especially time long and remote; -- usually followed by with. adjective

Of the same age; contemporary. adjective

Something of the same era or age. noun

Of the same period adjective

A person of nearly the same age as another noun

Something of the same era.

Somebody of the same age.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Coeval

The word "coeval" in example sentences

(p. 75); the chaos from which its world is created is powerful and essential to the creative process: “infinite darkness ... abyss ... bottomless depth” (p. 24) recall the coeval chaos of pagan mythology as well as the materia prima of alchemy (Jung, 1953, 1963). ❋ BLOSSOM FEINSTEIN (1968)

This scene is more delightful for the male tree than arein the poem's very last linestheir own reflections for the "coeval" trees in the sheltered vale. ❋ Unknown (2001)

War is coeval with human civilization and pervasive in human history. ❋ Peter Berkowitz (2011)

American horror writer H.P. Lovecraft asserted that weird supernatural horror fiction arose from a fundamental human psychological pattern that is "coeval with the religious feeling and closely related to many aspects of it." ❋ Unknown (2010)

At the City of Manchester Stadium, Neville's coeval Patrick Vieira ran amok, scoring twice. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Sam Houston, pragmatist, had ordered the Alamo and the coeval dust wallow, San Antonio Breixas, abandoned to Santa Ana's army, which Houston correctly foresaw would overrun the small band of defenders. ❋ David Ackley (2011)

You could say that Muti is, at the moment, a bigger star than Eschenbach, but the two approximately coeval conductors (Muti turns 70 next summer) have a lot in common. ❋ Anne Midgette (2010)

Ever since his coeval Jeff Goldberg moved a bit away from the ZOA-Peretz line on Israel\Palestine. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Contributions from fields as diverse as etymology and etymology and as coeval as cosmology and cosmetology will receive big wet kisses. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Admittedly, at present, you and I dovetail through this affiliation, but we are coincidental, not coeval. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Organs, fluids, eggs, scrotal sacs all might come to mind; the secret life of the body and our most primitive biological heritage swarm this nest of coeval somethings. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Unless this unsubstantiated claim was an allusion to the account in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible of Cain murdering his brother Abel, which would hardly constitute war in any intelligible meaning of the word (nor was Cain the first man according to that source), it is unclear where Obama acquired the conviction that war is coeval with and presumably an integral part of humanity. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A detailed examination of the seedy underbelly of the welfare state can only be improved by a coeval examination of your underbelly. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In fact given that the genocidal 19th-century laissez-faire-ism which neo-cons seek to revive was coeval with classic 19th-century atheism, you could plausibly call these authors and their devots, neo-atheists. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Naumov et al. (1991) described rhyolites with quartz crystals containing presumed coeval melt and fluid inclusions. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Cu is some samples was due to coeval entrapment of silicate melt and coexisting Cu-bearing fluid. ❋ Unknown (2008)

One gentleman was a deep philologist — he talked with him on the origin of the alphabet as if he had been coeval with Cadmus; another a celebrated critic, — you would have said the old man had studied political economy and belles-lettres all his life, — of science it is unnecessary to speak, it was his own distinguished walk. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Marshall Paraconformity: a mid-Oligocene record of inception of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and coeval glacio-eustatic lowstand? ❋ Unknown (2006)

For he when alone on the mountains, felling trees, once slighted the prayers of a Hamadryad, who wept and sought to soften him with plaintive words, not to cut down the stump of an oak tree coeval with herself, wherein for a long time she had lived continually; but he in the arrogance of youth recklessly cut it down. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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