Definition of "moderns" []

• Plural form of modern. (noun)

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• "Whitehead reversed the common cartoon of medieval versus modern: the moderns were the fideists and the medievals the partisans of “unbridled rationalism” (p. 9)."
• ""When I examine the famous writings of the ancients – not all of them, but most – and compare their talents with the knowledge of the moderns, I judge the ancients eloquent, and call the moderns dumb," he proclaimed in the opening line of his coming-of-age essay and first known work, On the Same and the Different."
• "Abbé Jean Terrasson in a posthumous work, Philoso - phy Applicable to All Subjects (1754), affirmed that the superiority of the moderns is a necessary and natural effect of the very constitution of the human spirit."