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Definition of Antiquarianisms
1. antiquarianism [n] - See also: antiquarianism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Antiquarianisms
Literary usage of Antiquarianisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1897)
"... being swollen out of shape by superfluous details, defaced with dilettante
antiquarianisms, ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1898)
"... literally reeking with antiquarianisms, deliver themselves in the old manner
and the old tongue. This Forest Hall was an object of semi-martial interest ..."
3. The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater (1888)
"So, from a few stray antiquarianisms, a few faces cast up sharply from the waves,
Winckelmann, as his manner is, divines the temperament of the antique ..."
4. The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater (1899)
"So, from a few stray antiquarianisms, a few faces cast up sharply from the waves,
Winckelmann, as his manner is, divines the temperament of the antique ..."
5. The Stones of Paris in History and Letters by Benjamin Ellis Martin, Charlotte M. Martin (1906)
"... defaced with dilettanti antiquarianisms, nugatory tag-rags, and, in short,
turned away from its real uses, instead of furthered toward them. ..."
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