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Age of Reason   /eɪdʒ əv rˈizən/   Listen
Age of Reason

noun
1.
A movement in Europe from about 1650 until 1800 that advocated the use of reason and individualism instead of tradition and established doctrine.  Synonym: Enlightenment.






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"Age of Reason" Quotes from Famous Books



... accepted his education from the Church; and would he shrink from making payment therefor? Yet, on the other hand, must he sacrifice honor—yea, his whole future—to the payment of a debt forced upon him before he had reached the age of reason? The oath of ordination, the priest's oath, echoed in his throbbing ears like a soul-sentence to eternal doom; while spectral shades of moving priests and bishops, laying cold and unfeeling hands upon him, sealing ...
— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking



Words linked to "Age of Reason" :   historic period, reform movement, enlightenment, age



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