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noun

Antiquity n. (pl. antiquities)

The quality of being ancient; ancientness; great age; as, a statue of remarkable antiquity; a family of great antiquity.

Old age. (Obs.) "It not your voice broken?... and every part about you blasted with antiquity?"

Ancient times; former ages; times long since past; as, Cicero was an eloquent orator of antiquity.

The ancients; the people of ancient times.

An old gentleman. (Obs.) "You are a shrewd antiquity, neighbor Clench."

A relic or monument of ancient times; as, a coin, a statue, etc.; an ancient institution. Note: (In this sense, usually in the plural.) "Heathen antiquities."

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Etymology of 'Antiquity'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Antiquity" Quotes from Famous Books

... world rightly asks of every opinion and idea presented to its judgment, "Is it true?" and it has reason on its side in being sceptical concerning the records of the past. If not, there are religions in the world of an antiquity greater than Christianity's, whose traditions have been faithfully kept by a vaster host of the human race than has ever followed the traditions of Christianity. Is it to be a battle between tradition and tradition? Is age ...

— Painted Windows - Studies in Religious Personality • Harold Begbie

... him, he received an education better than that of many European princes. This I can speak of from my own knowledge, as I have often conversed with him. He had a great admiration for the ancient Romans; and in everything but the colour of his skin he reminded me of those heroes of antiquity. ...

— The World's Greatest Books, Vol. I • Various

... Of equal antiquity with the religion of Egypt, that of Babylonia and Assyria possesses some marked differences as to its development. Beginning among the non-Semitic Sumero-Akkadian population, it maintained for a long time its uninterrupted development, affected mainly by influences from within, namely, ...

— The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria • Theophilus G. Pinches

... I am reading it again as it were by accident, and a piece at a time, my eye catching a word and travelling obediently on through the whole number. It is a graceful book, essentially graceful, with its haunting agreeable melancholy, its pleasing savoury of antiquity. At the same time, by its merits, it shows itself rather as the promise of something else to come than a thing final in itself. You have yet to give us—and I am expecting it with impatience—something of a larger gait; something daylit, not twilit; something with the colours of life, not ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... missionaries L800, and Brown wrote from his dying bed a message of loving help. The newspapers of Calcutta caught the enthusiasm; one leading article concluded with the assurance that the Serampore press would, "like the phoenix of antiquity, rise from its ashes, winged with new strength, and destined, in a lofty and long-enduring flight, widely to diffuse the benefits of knowledge throughout the East." The day after the fire ceased to smoke Monohur was at the ...

— The Life of William Carey • George Smith

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