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Meanings of antiquity in English
Usage of antiquity in English
1
He took particular delight in pursuing any difficult inquiry in classical antiquity.
2
The origin of the city is lost in the mists of antiquity.
3
The honored antiquity of it is preserved in the anonymous English couplet:
4
Further, as the priesthood excels in dignity, so it precedes in antiquity.
5
The belief in the evil eye came into Europe from pagan antiquity.
6
But it was a sacred emblem in the dateless antiquity of Egypt.
7
The shades of the heroes of antiquity hovered over the revolutionary assemblies.
8
In the more remote ages of antiquity, the world was unequally divided.
9
First, the antiquity of its lineage; secondly, the antiquity of its self.
10
Continuing, the same editorial called attention to the antiquity of the institution:
11
The rocks are probably Silurian; and if so, of quite immeasurable antiquity.
12
Men have a natural veneration for antiquity, especially in matters of religion.
13
We know as yet little of the development of industry in antiquity.
14
Very many of the errors of antiquity have re-appeared in our times.
15
The antiquity of our former worship is still venerable in my eyes.
16
He acknowledges as incontestable the superiority of the poets of classical antiquity:-
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United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Rare