Age of Reason

See also: age of reason

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the Age of Reason

  1. (history) Synonym of Age of Enlightenment
    • 1999, Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, The Year 1000: What life was like at the turn of The First Millennium, London: Abacus, published 2000, page 91:
      It suited some thinkers in the eighteenth-century Age of Reason to look down on the Middle Ages as a primitive and backward time when men believed that the world was flat.

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