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  1. adjective Of, belonging to, or occurring at a time immediately before the present.
  2. adjective Modern; new.
  3. adjective Geology Of, belonging to, or denoting the Holocene Epoch. See Table at geologic time.

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  • An article entitled "Italy's Defection," in a recent issue, is most bitter in tone, accusing Italy of long-standing intrigue and treachery We know that Italy went still further from the fact that at the renewal of the alliance in 1912 in Paris she expressly announced that she would not march against France. —  New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915
  • The date was quite recent, and did not correspond with their unhappy sojourn in the Imperial City The question is, shall we accept this offer?" —  The Lure of the Mask
  • Jed Tighe, however, one of the few people of the neighborhood who had shown but a perfunctory interest in the League, laughed to scorn the idea of buying the fire-pots, as Fred had suggested in a recent issue of the Review_. —  The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men
  • This certainly suggests that the change may have been very recent--determined, perhaps, wholly through the personal influence of Wishart, whom Knox so affectionately commemorates. —  John Knox
  • Three windows let in the afternoon sunlight, windows that sparkled from a recent washing; a trailing fuchsia in full bloom, in an old wash-basin painted green, was suspended from the ceiling in front of the east window. —  The Second Chance
 

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  1. Middle English, new, fresh, from Latin recēns, recent-; see ken- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Old French recent, French récent =Provencal recent =Spanish reciente =Portuguese Italian recente, from Latin recen (t-)s, fresh, new; (a) in one view, from re- + -cen (t-)s, supposed to be allied to W. cynt, first, earliest, Sanskrit kanīyāṅs, smaller, kanistha, smallest (cf. Russian po-chinatǐ, begin): (b) in another view, orig. present participle from a root *rec =Zend √ raç, come (cf. recens a victoria, ‘just coming from a victory’; Rhodo recentes Romam venerunt, ‘ they came to Rome just from Rhodes,’ etc.: see def. 5).
 

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