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anachronisms
noun as in error in time placement
Strong matches
Weak matches
Example Sentences
But there were two designations that seemed anachronisms to me: -- Spain and the United Kingdom among the beer swillers.
The tattoos, the missing fingers, they are becoming cultural anachronisms.
No editor could possibly tinker it into the whole which we possess; none could steer clear of many absurd anachronisms.
The late Homeric rhapsodists avoided such tempting anachronisms.
If this were so, the relative rarity of "anachronisms" and of modernisms in language in the Homeric poems is explained.
Virgil made no such attempt in the neid, of which, notwithstanding the manners abound in anachronisms of detail.
Ludicrous anachronisms, not unlike those experienced by Alice in her looking-glass journey, are occasioned by this practice.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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