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recent récent English Etymology As classifier for a geological epoch coinciding with human presence (“Recent era”) introduced by en Charles Lyell 1833 1.Charles Lyell Charles Lyell Principles of Geology 1833 III book IV https://archive.org/details/principlesgeolo27lyelgoog/page/n391/mode/1up 385 All formations, whether igneous or aqueous, which can be shown by any such proofs to be of a date posterior to the introduction of man, will be called Recent. Proper noun en obsolete geology The Holocene. en The Last Lost World Lydia Pyne; Stephen J. Pyne Penguin 2012 9780670023639 He [Charles Lyell] ignored Quaternary, a term he never accepted. The Recent addressed the age “tenanted by man,” which at the time barely extended beyond the chronicles of the Bible. Adjective - en obsolete geology astronomy Of the Holocene, particularly pre-21st century.Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed. quotes "P. Gibbard & T. van Kolfschoten in F. Gradstein et al. Geol. Time Scale 2004 xxii. 451/2 The term 'Recent' as an alternative to Holocene is invalid and should not be used." References Anagrams en ceenrt center centre Center tenrec Centre