modern

modernisti, nykyaikainen ihminen

modern

nykyaikainen Pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient.

(ux)  (nowrap) in the 1600s, the building still has (nowrap)

But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ¶ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder. The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window(nb..).

What the moderns could mean by their suppression of the final couplet's repeatings, cannot be conceiv'd (..)

Even though we moderns can never crawl inside the skin of the ancient and think and feel as he did (..) we must as historians make the attempt.

This sense that the modern can be understood as that which attempts to demarcate itself from the past—but which in doing so binds itself to this past—resonates through to the modernism of the early twentieth century.