anciently

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Because it’s always been “anciently multiple” and cosmopolitan, it contains the “antibodies,” he says, to heal a divisive culture from within.

From New York Times

By then, abacot had taken on a life of its own, referring to not just any cap but a "Cap of State, made like a double crown, worn anciently by the Kings of England."

From Salon

In several of the poesie paintings, Titian cast the faces of his protagonists in shadow, obscuring our sense of their inner lives, making them at once more anciently remote and more humanly familiar.

From Washington Post

“I think it’s saying those organisms are anciently there.”

From Science Magazine

The cameo form itself was one anciently associated with the celebration of Greco-Roman imperial rule, but here, adapted for use as Sasanian propaganda, it advertises the ignoble defeat of that rule.

From New York Times