antiquarism
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antiquarism (uncountable)
- Synonym of antiquarianism
- 1763, The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, volume 16, page 102:
- We cannot help congratulating the public on this very uncommon attempt to revive the uſeful but too much neglected art of antiquariſm.
- 1899, Alfred Henry Lloyd, Philosophy of History: An Introduction to the Philosophical Study of Politics, page 150:
- 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.
- 1997, Philosophia Mathematica, page 23:
- Thus, absolute antiquarism, as well as an absolute presentism, exist as tendencies, and the extreme realization of either leads to absurdity.