latter-day

alternative latterday

1. not comparableModern, recent.

   He thinks of himself as a latter-day knight errant, out on a quest fighting dragons. It’s not very practical, but it is romantic.

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   Enquirer: Sir, I understand you are a member of the Church called Latter-Day Saints. Why is the Church called by that name? / Saint: The term Saint is as old as Adam, and has been in use in all ages and dispensations as a sacred name applied to the people of God by inspiration, but more especially applied by the sacred writers to the people of God in the last days. […] [W]e consider that the people of God should be distinguished by no other name but that of Saints, the term Latter-Day being appended as merely expressive of the age or dispensation in which we live.

   1842 January, “Dialogue between a Saint and an Enquirer after Truth”, in P[arley] P[arker] Pratt, editor, The Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star, volume II, number 9, Manchester: Printed by W. Shackleton & Son; edited and published by Parley P. Pratt, […], →OCLC, page 129

   As before mentioned, the pottery makers were comparatively late arrivals—it is conjectured these crossed in canoes from the continent in the Neolithic Age. These latter-day visitors were followed by the invaders of the Bronze Age, and all found their way, in due time, to the Wookey Hole (or holes), for many bronze implements and ornaments were found.

   1922 April, C. J. Vine, “Wookey Hole: Britain’s remarkable prehistoric remains”, in The Boy’s Own Paper, volume XLV, part 6, London: "Boy's Own Paper" Office, […], →OCLC, page 419, column 2

   On the other hand, the self-cleaning smokebox belongs to the latter-day period of the L.M.S.R., when the visiting U.S.A. 2-8-0s of the war had awakened an interest in such things.

   1951 April, Stirling Everard, “A Matter of Pedigree”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 273

   A trait of latter-day steam power on Canadian Pacific was the recessed headlight, illustrated on the engine of Extra 2380 East running between Swift Current and Moose Jaw, Sask., in December 1956.

   1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 114 (photo caption)

   The face which emerged was not reassuring. […] He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.

   1963, Margery Allingham, “The Boy in the Corner”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 214

2. not comparableOf or relating to the last days or end times in various eschatologies.