anachronous

Example Sentences

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This tumult underlies some of the monarchy’s appeal, however anachronous the institution.

From Slate • Sep. 20, 2022

Unfortunately, much of the way we talk about our interests in our personal data relies on anachronous analogies to the physical world.

From Slate • Nov. 12, 2013

The bill was, however, returned “Ignoramus,” and the use of the name was probably anachronous.

From Captain Richard Ingle The Maryland "Pirate and Rebel," 1642-1653 by Ingle, Edward

This superstition of witchcraft has here been strong in all eras, but it is at last becoming extinct; cretinism, as anachronous and as horrible,—a fact, not a superstition,—remains unaccounted for and unlessened.

From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Dix, Edwin Asa

The "Moon of Delight" is God, eternal Polaris, anachronous never.

From Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda, Paramahansa