Definitionn. something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
Last update: July 29, 2015
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In ordinary times, in order to dissolve an anachronism and to cause it to vanish, one has only to make it spell out the date. [noun]
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A cloister, caught in the very act of asceticism, in the very heart of the city of '89 and of 1830 and of 1848, Rome blossoming out in Paris, is an anachronism.' [noun]
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Monarchy is considered as anachronism in the age of democracy. [noun]
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Now we have here a patent anachronism which destroys the possibility that this book was really written by the Apostle Barnabas. [noun]
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He is an anachronism from a past era, somehow transported to 2004 and mysteriously alive. [noun]
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She not unjustly objected to Claverhouse's use of the word "sentimental" as an anachronism. [noun]
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Canada is an anachronism. [noun]
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In a society like ours, to seek for literary glory seems to me an anachronism. [noun]
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But the national existence and name of the Turks (q.v.) seem to date from the 5th century A.D., so that it is an anachronism to speak of the Yue-Chi as a division of them. [Please select]
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At a cursory glance he might appear to be a physiological, psychological, and political anachronism. [Please select]
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The Major, disconcerted for an instant by his anachronism, recovered superbly. [Please select]
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