antiquarian
adjective
pertaining to antiquaries or to the study of antiquities.
antiquarianism
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a word derived from
antiquarian.
Example Sentences
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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
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
A recurrent theme is Dirda’s love of the dustier byways of antiquarianism and of the hours spent in used-book stores in pursuit of a rare find.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 4, 2015
With Hurray for the Riff Raff, antiquarianism is mainly a salve.
From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2014
But the greatest evil from which Chinese intellect is suffering is its bombastic antiquarianism.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 by B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower
