anachronous

Example Sentences

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This tumult underlies some of the monarchy’s appeal, however anachronous the institution.

From Slate • Sep. 20, 2022

Unfortunately, much of the way we talk about our interests in our personal data relies on anachronous analogies to the physical world.

From Slate • Nov. 12, 2013

This superstition of witchcraft has here been strong in all eras, but it is at last becoming extinct; cretinism, as anachronous and as horrible,—a fact, not a superstition,—remains unaccounted for and unlessened.

From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Dix, Edwin Asa

The bill was, however, returned “Ignoramus,” and the use of the name was probably anachronous.

From Captain Richard Ingle The Maryland "Pirate and Rebel," 1642-1653 by Ingle, Edward

The "Moon of Delight" is God, eternal Polaris, anachronous never.

From Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda, Paramahansa