anachronistically
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9.9
- adverb
- /əˌnækrəˈnɪstɪkli/
- Some of these objects clash anachronistically with the picture's subject matter.
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Examples
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But there is no evidence of an initial contemplation of a second quattrocento sacristy to achieve such symmetry, as has often been anachronistically asserted.
Academic text (2015) -
Using those vintage film "documents" for learning history, however, requires removing one layer of interpretation that Marcus et al. (2010) called "presentism." They define that term as, "a mode of historical thought in which present-day ideas and attitudes are anachronistically introduced into depictions of the past or are used to evaluate or judge what happened in the past" (p. 146).
Academic text (2014) -
To use a term anachronistically, then, it would be plausible to say that Henry VIII developed and used an Erastian church.
Academic text (1990) -
Its schoolchildren wear uniforms and appear to the American visitor to be anachronistically neat and well-behaved.
Academic text (2004) -
In this text, Collis mixes contemporary twenty-first-century modes of expression, events, and languages anachronistically with nineteenth-century poetic sensibilities, locations, and genres.
Academic text (2013) -
Underlining awareness that place mattered in earlier gatherings, this document described the 1925 assembly anachronistically as commemorating the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Mennonite church.
Academic text (2006) -
In the movie, the use of smartphones in the 18th century setting was portrayed anachronistically.
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The professor pointed out that medieval knights are often depicted anachronistically wearing modern armor in films.
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When the book featured a character texting in the 1920s, it was anachronistically out of place.
Synonyms
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7.9
In a way that seems out of place for the situation
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9.9
In an old-fashioned way like people spoke or wrote long ago
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
anachronistically = anachronistic (semi-transparent) = ana + chron + istic + ally
The adverb is clearly formed from the adjective 'anachronistic' by the regular adverbial suffix '-ally'.
Etymology
Anachronistically comes from Greek parts ana- and chron-, where ana- means 'against' or 'back' and chron- means 'time'. You can see the same chron- in the word chronological, which is about order in time. So, to describe something anachronistically is to place it 'against' its own time — in other words, 'out of place' for that period.