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ˌpresent-ˈday, a.
[present a. (adv.) 10.]
Current, contemporary; now in existence or in use; prevalent; living at the present time.
1887Pall Mall G. 23 Aug. 6/1 Replying that this was not a present-day practical question. 1902in C. W. Cunnington Eng. Women's Clothing (1952) ii. 47 Present-day fashions require for the ideal figure an upright poise of the shoulders. 1925I. A. Richards Princ. Lit. Crit. 222 That Dante is neglected is due only indirectly to his present-day obscurity. 1926D. L. Sayers Clouds of Witness vi. 142 A present-day girl, who rushes about bareheaded in all weathers. 1930Times Educ. Suppl. 31 May 245/3 Much of present-day British India never was under Mogul rule. 1934Amer. Speech IX. 83/1 An invitation from Edward C. Ehrensperger to address the Present-Day English Section of the Modern Language Association of America. 1934Discovery Nov. 309/1 There is a reversal back to negative phototropism, that is, they [sc. the termites] revert to the normal conditions of their present-day life. 1946‘S. Russell’ To Bed with Grand Music v. 77 A pigskin bag at present-day prices. 1959Universities & Left Rev. Spring 54/1 The passivity of the present-day working-class reader. 1967E. Short Embroidery & Fabric Collage iii. 63 In present-day furnishing also there is a feeling for function as well as decoration. 1974P. Erdman Silver Bears iii. 35 My family has an obligation not only to present-day Iran, but also to the Persia of the past. 1977G. W. H. Lampe God as Spirit ii. 51 Saul's sudden possession by the Spirit when he met a group of ecstatics coming down from a high place, preceded, like some of their present-day counterparts, by a musical group.
Hence present-ˈdayness, actuality, contemporaneity.
1963Times 9 Jan. 11/3, 1960 doesn't view the eighteenth century as 1920 did—fashion and social economic state of society affect our attitude to the past, and it's the designer's job to bring out this present-dayness. |