Definition of "1770s" []

• The decade from 1770 to 1779 (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "This historical prophecy, written from the perspective of the 1770s, is rendered especially ironic in light of later events during the French Revolution."
• ""shadow," virtue, and social customs like politeness sound "more ridiculous to the ear than the voice of a puppet": "the world of the man of feeling of the 1770s is a world of 'shadowy' forms emptied of content; of hollow, powerless people who have, in essence, sacrificed their souls; a world of coins — the prototype of the gothic world" (Henderson 229-30)."
• "Libertarians’ pretence of being anti-establishment in the same way the democratic republicans were anti-establishment in the 1770s is about as convincing as 20th century Communists’ pretence that, despite controlling the government, civil service, army, secret police, and economy, they were still the revolutionaries fighting Da Man."