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antiquarianism

noun

Etymology

From antiquarian + -ism.

  1. learned borrowing from antīquārius
  2. formed as antiquarian — “antiquary + -an”
  3. suffixed as antiquarianism — “antiquarian + ism”

Definitions

  1. Study or love of antiques.

  2. Study or love of antiquity.

  3. Archaism.

    • We cannot tell if we're facing "nonsense" words that she's coining afresh or obsolete, Old English antiquarianisms from before the standardization of spelling.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for antiquarianism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA