antiquarianism
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While the contextualist approach makes possible this detailed and rich type of understanding, there is a danger that contextualist historians might fall into the trap of antiquarianism.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
Certainly, you can read Maxwell through a double-glazed, rose-tinted pane of antiquarianism.
From New York Times ● Aug. 23, 2021
Part of the problem with such exercises in antiquarianism and originalist literalism is that they miss the larger point about trying to translate 18th century legal principles and practices into modern terms.
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2021
Yet Sebald also extracts from this self-conscious antiquarianism something unaccountable: a mysterious contemporary stillness, an otherworldliness of the present.
From The New Yorker ● May 29, 2017
Though the spirit of antiquarianism is seldom associated with the swelling affections of the heart that is dedicated to Momus, old Innerkepple had, notwithstanding, been able to combine the two qualities or powers.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative by Various
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