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anachronism

noun as in error in time placement

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The “reenactment” of the battle, an even more recent anachronism, dates back only to 1977.

These days, says another former top studio executive, puts are an anachronism.

With these appears, by a poetic anachronism, Dietrich of Berne.

By the time of the Reform Bill, a sinecure had become an anachronism.

Yet there are "many traces of apparent anachronism," of divergence from the more antique picture of life.

It was to him more of an anachronism than any manifestation he had yet encountered, even at the Fort, that stronghold of the past.

But what is an anachronism of this kind compared to that which involves the principal character in one continued topsy-turveydom?

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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