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antiquarism

noun

Etymology

From antiquary + -ism.

  1. learned borrowing from antīquārius
  2. suffixed as antiquarism — “antiquary + ism”

Definitions

  1. Synonym of antiquarianism.

    • We cannot help congratulating the public on this very uncommon attempt to revive the uſeful but too much neglected art of antiquariſm.
    • Well, I confess my forgetfulness; but what historian, who ever gets free from mere antiquarism, can help forgetting? A modern realism surely does no greater violence to history than antiquarism.
    • Thus, absolute antiquarism, as well as an absolute presentism, exist as tendencies, and the extreme realization of either leads to absurdity.

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