Contemporary
Contemporary adjective - Existing or occurring at the same period of time.
Had it is an antonym for contemporary.
Had it
Both terms in one sentence
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Dee was a practicing occultist who was an early advocate of colonizing the New World — and, contemporary legend had it, he had saved England from the Spanish Armada by using his magic powers to... raise a tempest.
Source: Theatre / The Tempest -
Although there were traces of it as early as the 16th century, it only became a noticeable feature of the dialects that had it in the mid-17th, and only took its contemporary form in the end of the 18th.
Source: Useful Notes / British Accents
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