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Definition of "anachronisms" []

  • Plural form of anachronism. (noun)

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Use "anachronisms" in a sentence
  • "-- The stories of Jesus 'human weaknesses and of the disciples' faults also bespeak the Gospels 'accuracy: the Gospels do not try to suppress apparent discrepancies, which indicates their originality; the Gospels do not contain anachronisms; the authors appear to have been first-century Jews who were witnesses of the events;"
  • "It is not, however, so much on these as on so-called anachronisms that assailants have attacked the letters."
  • "He was unhappily sure that Mrs. May's position in her far-off world (world for which he was deemed unworthy) associated her with dukes, earls, barons, counts, and all sorts of titled anachronisms of every nation."