adjective 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.
