ancientness
Example Sentences
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Bounding around the stage shirtless with a disconcerting lope that suggests something’s off with his hip, he simultaneously owns his ancientness and defies it.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2023
The show’s title characters also appear on four amphora that were made last year but are roughly crafted to give an illusion of ancientness.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2023
The idea was to completely transform the monadnock—to appropriate some of its ancientness, to secure a permanent place in honored memory for a nation that had lasted for fewer than five years.
From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2020
The trumpets and the ancientness were proof of our survival; and the king’s young daughter would rule the peace.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 16, 2017
The paint was peeling off the rickety old carved galleries; the arabesques over the windows were chipped and worn;—the ancientness of the place rendered it doubly picturesque.
From From Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray
