Usage of "modern language"

His relations of facts will be credible, explained clearly, not in historical language, but nearly in the tone of every day conversation. 
 The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 

Usage of modern language in inglés

To use the slang of modern language, cheek carries everything nowadays. 
 An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids 

To him God was, to use more modern language, 'immanent' as well as 'transcendent.' 
 Expositions of Holy Scripture: Isaiah and Jeremiah 

The chief difficulty in teaching was the want of suitable text-books in the modern language. 
 History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners F... 

Mr. Schneider was able to preach with great facility and propriety in the modern language. 
 History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners F... 

It is the ideal, to use modern language, of the relations between heaven and earth. 
 Expositions of Holy Scripture: Psalms 

Our Library of Congress contains over one thousand of them in well-nigh every modern language. 
 Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday / A Comprehensive View... 

Hebron I had chosen German as my modern language. 
 Tramping on Life / An Autobiographical Narrative 

Yet it came in for more praise than perhaps any other modern language exam this year. 
 The Irish Times 

Or, to use modern language, paid a tax. 
 The new yorker 

By this method also the connection between the ancient and modern language will be more obvious. 
 The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 

The Italian was the only modern language which possessed anything that could be called a literature. 
 Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 

Remitting Greek in favour of a modern language. 
 Practical Essays 

As John Hawks points out, in modern language this falls squarely into the fake news category. 
 The Guardian 

Now, the only modern language besides French of which M. Zola had any knowledge was Italian. 
 With Zola in England: A Story of Exile 

Joining in second year I had missed streaming into French, the only modern language on the curriculum. 
 The Irish Times 

Nor was the legion destitute of what, in modern language, would be styled a train of artillery. 
 History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 