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Meanings of anachronous in English

Chronologically misplaced.

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Examples for "anachronistic"
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However, the team's mentality has always been interesting and at times anachronistic.
The Irish Times
2
Gillard justified her position with a critique: marriage is an anachronistic institution.
The Guardian
3
It is anachronistic that we start every day here with a prayer.
The Irish Times
4
Winslet manages emotional honesty within anachronistic confines, and Schoenaerts escapes with dignity.
The Guardian
5
For all that, the deliberately anachronistic style makes it go down easily.
The Irish Times
1
Who is the maiden with the anachronic baby-cart?
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12...
2
Better that it should not have consented to motion, and have held stubbornly to all ancestral ways, than have bred that anachronic spectre.
The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative
Usage of anachronous in English
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The "Moon of Delight" is God, eternal Polaris, anachronous never.
Autobiography of a Yogi
2
It had not justified its survival in our efficient days, it had held out-thanksto Perry-with absurd and anachronous persistence against the inevitable consolidation.
A Far Country — Volume 3
Frequent collocations
Anachronous through the time