antiquitarianism

noun

Etymology

From antiquitarian + -ism.

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of antiquarianism.

    • Always a man that would fly at high game rather than at inferior birds, he had no hesitation in attempting a reply even to this tract of the renowned Irish Primate, which might be regarded as Antiquitarianism at its best.
    • Abandoning all claims to the typicality of the family in any statistical sense does not mean retreating to antiquitarianism and the quaintness of the particular.

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