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It was partly the old-fashionedness of it, the simplicity of trudging through the cold with my family to be part of a massive crowd.

From The Guardian • Jan. 29, 2017

It said, “Look at me asserting the value of painting in an era characterized by the abstract perfection of new media”; it said, “Look at how cutting edge my old-fashionedness is.”

From The New Yorker • May 30, 2016

It is much more likely to come from corruption or old-fashionedness.

From Reuters • Oct. 14, 2010

“We don’t carry on that way,” he explained, smiling at his own old-fashionedness.

From New York Times • Aug. 23, 2010

This, I must confess, surprised me much, and I pondered the saying long, but could come at no satisfactory conclusion as to that wherein my old-fashionedness lay. 

From The Coral Island A Tale of the Pacific Ocean by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)