ancientness

Example Sentences

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Bounding around the stage shirtless with a disconcerting lope that suggests something’s off with his hip, he simultaneously owns his ancientness and defies it.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2023

The show’s title characters also appear on four amphora that were made last year but are roughly crafted to give an illusion of ancientness.

From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2023

Many say the knowledge of their craft has been passed down to them by their elders, and they revere the ancientness of the practice, even if it sometimes earns them a sideward glance.

From New York Times • Jul. 17, 2021

The idea was to completely transform the monadnock—to appropriate some of its ancientness, to secure a permanent place in honored memory for a nation that had lasted for fewer than five years.

From Slate • Jul. 8, 2020

I mysel hae aften wondered at the ancientness o' our house, and pity the silly fools wha change the names o' their properties.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various