anachronic
Britishadjective
Other Word Forms
- anachronically adverb
Etymology
Origin of anachronic
C19: see anachronism
Example Sentences
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It’s easy to identify gaps in a supposedly “universal” collection, and very easy to post anachronic judgments of what your predecessors ignored.
From New York Times • Aug. 27, 2020
Better that it should not have consented to motion, and have held stubbornly to all ancestral ways, than have bred that anachronic spectre.
From The Egoist by Meredith, George
There is surely nothing more incongruous or anachronic in the soliloquy of Tristram after his separation from Iseult than in the lecture of Theseus after the obsequies of Arcite.
From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
Who is the maiden with the anachronic baby-cart?
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 by Various
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