Definition of "anachronism" []

• The representation of someone as existing or something as happening in other than chronological, proper, or historical order. (noun)
• One that is out of its proper or chronological order, especially a person or practice that belongs to an earlier time: "A new age had plainly dawned, an age that made the institution of a segregated picnic seem an anachronism” ( Henry Louis Gates, Jr.) (noun)

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• "The usual AnSaxNet response to anachronism is to scoff at it, not to compete as to who is the most offended."
• "James J. Ward is now wholly James J. Ward, and he shares no part of his being with any vagabond anachronism from the younger world."
• "The biggest anachronism is misunderstanding of the phrase “right-wing.”"