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Recent

adjective

New. "A recent addition to the house" , "Recent buds on the apple trees"

Of the immediate past or just previous to the present time. Synonym: late. "Their late quarrel" , "His recent trip to Africa" , "In recent months" , "A recent issue of the journal"

noun

Approximately the last 10,000 years. Synonyms: Holocene, Holocene epoch, Recent epoch.

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... my eyes were singularly well blackened, and the swelling of my face, particularly about the upper lip, had not yet subsided. Owing to my remaining so much, since my arrest, in the obscurity of the between-decks, and perhaps to some inflammation in my eyes, from my recent beating, I blinked upon those ...

— Rattlin the Reefer • Edward Howard

... rapidly from the loss of blood and the fever weakness. His constitution triumphed easily over his recent illness, and he was only longing to be on the road, that he might the sooner stand face to face ...

— French and English - A Story of the Struggle in America • Evelyn Everett-Green

... among Thy servants, though to that hour unknown to us. Which when he discovered, he dwelt the more upon that subject, informing and wondering at our ignorance of one so eminent. But we stood amazed, hearing Thy wonderful works most fully attested, in times so recent, and almost in our own, wrought in the true Faith and Church Catholic. We all wondered; we, that they were so great, and he, that ...

— The Confessions of Saint Augustine • Saint Augustine

... recent English writer upon this subject presents an array of facts and considerations that do not support this view. He says that, with very few exceptions, it is the rule that, when both sexes are of strikingly gay and conspicuous colors, the nest is such as to conceal the sitting bird; while, ...

— Wake-Robin • John Burroughs

... Conall come from wars, Weak with wounds and recent scars; All the world our Hound would scour Till ...

— Heroic Romances of Ireland Volumes 1 and 2 Combined • A. H. Leahy

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