(n.) Character of an antiquary; study or love of antiquities.
Example Sentences:
(1) The ring was in the collection of the Chute family – which for generations was interested in politics, collecting, and antiquarian research – for centuries before the house came to the National Trust in the 1930s.
(2) When the rain stops, I wander on down the street and find Quagga , an antiquarian bookshop with an impressive collection of Africana.
(3) From the distance and safety of an antiquarian London library, Pakistan's ousted ruler, Pervez Musharraf , officially launched his political comeback today around a personality-driven new party, offering to be the "light in the darkness" for his long-suffering country.
(4) She has two sons, and is married to a dealer in antiquarian sheet music.
(5) The vibration theory, indeed, strongly influenced Hartley's associationist psychology and hence is of more than merely antiquarian interest.
(6) But Cumbernauld town centre’s famed “flexibility” was also its architectural downfall, as it became swamped in generic shopping boxes, obscuring its antiquarian-futurist silhouette.
(7) He should have flourished as a much-loved national figure, dividing his time among royal commissions, football and antiquarian bookshops.
(8) "I wonder what clubs can beat us for antiquarian bygone-dom in celebrating old players through song?"
(9) Concluding observations concern some of the practical problems of acquiring antiquarian books at auction.
(10) It is a deadly place, making up for what it lacks in soul and vitality with ogee curves and pop antiquarianism.
(11) Excepting a coterie of fogeyish misfits, dreamers, forelock-tugging courtiers, DIY specialists, greasy pole-climbers, short-sighted antiquarians and people who would not recognise a titanium lock-nut if one were pushed up their dado, Prince Charles attaches to architects the sort of revulsion properly due to paedophiles.
(12) The antiquarians of the 17th and 18th centuries who linked Stonehenge to the Celtic druids helped to spawn druidic orders that, by the Victorian era, allowed thousands of men to dress up in funny costumes and hold ceremonies.
(13) Tibor Ivanics is a manager at Robert Frew, an antiquarian book and print dealer a few doors down from Racine, which depends mainly on established clients, with a bit of business from tourists and locals.
(14) It performed the principles of its author: It is from Italy that we hurl at the whole world this utterly violent, inflammatory manifesto of ours, with which today we are founding "Futurism", because we wish to free our country from the stinking canker of its professors, archaeologists, tour guides and antiquarians.
(15) The sheer longevity of the survivors might suggest that these are antiquarian places, museums of a dead politics.
(16) To young people of the current generation the very idea of philology suggests something impossibly antiquarian and musty, but philology in fact is the most basic and creative of the interpretive arts.
(17) Our aim was to take the most open approach to it as possible, to find out above all why it is still considered to be such a mythical book.” Interviews with lawyers and historians, antiquarian booksellers and the actors’ own families, accompanied by archaeological-style digs everywhere from back gardens to attics, form the backbone of the play.
(18) At a local school, a visiting antiquarian, the Rev Alfred Richardson, helped him to relish archaeology with Roman remains as "hands-on history".
(19) For Best, dubstep was moving in to claim the space abandoned by rock, through its retreat during the 2000s into either antiquarian retro irrelevance or the non-visceral gentility of indie, all wordsmith craft and over-embellished arrangements.
(20) "T he book is infinitely more than an exercise in precious antiquarianism," wrote Brian Dillon in the Daily Telegraph of The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal , a book which "tells the story of 264 Japanese netsuke – small carvings made of ivory or wood" that "eventually made their way into de Waal's hands .
Archaism
Definition:
(a.) An ancient, antiquated, or old-fashioned, word, expression, or idiom; a word or form of speech no longer in common use.
(a.) Antiquity of style or use; obsoleteness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Simon Jenkins makes many excellent points supporting the removal of the “fiscal archaism” that is non-dom status ( Don’t stop at non-doms – stamp out all the tax tricks , 9 April).
(2) It is easy to accuse Clegg of mishandling the Rennard affair but he is at the mercy of a chaotic "open market" for vexatious litigation and of an upper chamber of Byzantine archaism desperately in need of reform.
(3) Defence is an area where governments are notoriously beholden to archaism and special interests – and where oppositions have a duty of challenge.
(4) Non-dom status is to fiscal policy what leeches once were to medicine, a lingering archaism embedded in professional custom and practice, and thus hard to change.
(5) The extraction of organs causes symbolic and cultural given to appear, leading to the elaboration of fantasies isclosure of archaisms and its fears.
(6) Playing the drunken hedonist deadbeat dad to Andy Samberg's uptight square son, Sandler uses a rasping voice that's like sandpaper on the eardrums, especially given his repetition of the unmissed noughties archaism "Whaaaaazzzzuuuuppp???"
(7) Stripped of the "British" comfort blanket, the archaism of England's power structure and its monstrous north-south imbalance would become visible and intolerable.
(8) Futurism held in equal contempt symbolism, classicism, moralism, parliamentarianism, feminism, "Don Juanism", individualism, archaism, egoism, pessimism, "and every kind of materialistic self-serving cowardice".
(9) And I'd love to think that this type of behaviour was a generational thing, shortly to be flushed out, a perplexing archaism, like smoking in cinemas .
(10) A "lively public radio show about words, language, and how we use them" is how this show is described, and its hosts – Martha Barnette , an author, and Grant Barrett , a lexicographer – brilliantly cover everything to do with language: slang, colloquialisms, grammar, word debates, style and usage, dialects and even archaisms.