Even in regions such as the Alps, where some masses of granite and gneiss can be shown to be of comparatively modern date, belonging, for example, to the period hereafter to be described as tertiary, they are still underlying rocks.
They enter into the disturbed and loftiest portions of the Alpine chain, to the elevation of which they enable us therefore to assign a comparatively modern date.
The practice of making castings of iron is comparatively modern; those of the ancients were made of brass, and other alloys of copper.
Are the monuments of civilization found in America ancient or comparatively modern?
Tezcuco and Mexico are both known to be comparatively modern cities, Mexico itself being founded no earlier than 1325 A.
It is a comparatively modern structure, no portion being probably older than the period of the Crusades.
At Toome Bar was found an anchor or grappling instrument twenty-one inches long, but being formed of iron it should be viewed as comparatively modern (plate IV.
It is a common opinion that punishment, in this sense of the word, is a social institution of comparatively modern origin, which has sprung from, and gradually superseded, the earlier custom of individual or family revenge.
As to the fate of the non-justified dead very little is said, and the punishment devised for them seems to have been a comparatively modern invention.
It is, of course, comparatively modern, and quite useless as a means for ascertaining the real basis of the custom, which is probably a means of propitiating the tree god to grant favourable weather.
There is good evidence in custom that the Age of Stone existed in many places up to comparatively modern times.
That the respect for the cow is ofcomparatively modern date is best established on the authority of a writer, himself a Hindu.
Immediately upon entering the church, a doubt involuntarily suggests itself, how far this balustrade may not be an addition of comparatively modern date.
Brown is still much commoner in the north than in the south, and at one time the northern Johnson and Robinson contrasted with the southern Jones and Roberts, the latter being of comparatively modern origin in Wales (Chapter IV).
But, as this process is comparatively modern, it is more likely that the name comes from the same verb in its older meaning of making impervious to water by means of clay.
It is possible that some German Reuters have become English Rutters in comparatively modern times, but the German surname Reuter has nothing to do with a trooper.
We cannot always say whether an early etymology is serious or not, but many theories which were undoubtedly meant for jokes have been quite innocently accepted by comparatively modern writers.
In former times it contained a balcony, from which the royal processions and civic parades were viewed, though, in comparatively modern times, these processions were seen from the houses opposite Bow Church.
Anne, not of the reputed mother of the Virgin, for her cult is comparatively modern, not much earlier than the fifteenth century, but dedicated to the mother of S.
At present there is only the ruin of a comparatively modern tower on the motte, but Shaw states that there was formerly a stone keep.
Originally a walled town, Fore Street is still crossed by the East Gate, which has been rebuilt in comparatively modern times.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "comparatively modern" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
