10 examples of antiquarianism in sentences

His genealogy is, therefore, a matter of no idle antiquarianism.

of the kindly production of the juniper-berry (he was not, he owned, "constellated under Aquarius"), his antiquarianism of taste, and relish of the crotchets and whimsies of authorship, are as familiar to us almost as they were to the group he gathered round him Wednesdays at No. 4, Inner Temple Lane, where "a clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigor of the game" awaited them.

[study of the past] paleontology, paleography, paleology^; paleozoology; palaetiology^, archaeology; paleogeography; paleoecology; paleobotany; paleoclimatoogy; archaism, antiquarianism, medievalism, Pre-Raphaelitism; paleography.

All the rest is only read out of antiquarianism or of affectation.

We have often been amused with the different wonders of ancient Rome, but seldom more than with the following piece of antiquarianism burlesqued: M. Simond, in his Tour in Italy and Sicily, tells us that the Coliseum is too ruinousthat the Egyptian Museum in the Vatican puts him in mind of the five wigs in the barber

By degrees we come down, through Saxons and Normans, to that work which was peculiarly Camden's, the topographical antiquarianism.

For example, instead of saying: The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold, you diverted attention from your acting by an appeal to the literary antiquarianism of your audience, and, out of one or other of the quartos, read the line:

Thus he was drawn by circumstances to devote a good deal of time, more than he intended, to the mere antiquarianism of Rome.

There is no fond antiquarianism; all the old Latin inscriptions and bas-reliefs that have been found have been mortared together at random into one wall; all the human bones that have been unearthed, and they are many, have been thrown unceremoniously into an open box.

The old-maidenly genius of antiquarianism seems to have presided over the editing of the "Library."

10 examples of  antiquarianism  in sentences