ˈlatter-day, adj. phr.
Belonging to ‘the latter days’; modern. Latter-day Saints, the name by which the Mormons call themselves.
| 1842 Caswall City of Mormons 22 On the door..was an inscription to the following effect: ‘Office of Joseph Smith, President of the Church of Latter Day Saints’. 1850 Carlyle (title) Latter-day Pamphlets. 1851 Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 22 Neither the Latter-day Saints nor any similar sect, have made converts among the costermongers. 1855 Trollope Warden xiv. 222 The painting of some of these latter-day pictures [sc. of the Pre-Raffaellite School]. 1884 Manch. Exam. 29 Feb. 5/3 The whole circumstances were thoroughly mediæval from a latter-day English point of view. 1897 Dowden Fr. Lit. iv. iv. 329 André Chénier..a latter-day Greek or demi-Greek himself. |