coeval

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

COEVAL, adjective Of the same age; beginning to exist at the same time; of equal age; usually and properly followed by with. COEVAL, noun One of the same age; one who begins to exist at the same time. It is not properly used as synonymous with cotemporary.
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