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anachronous

ADJECTIVE
  1. chronologically misplaced
    English public schools are anachronistic

How To Use anachronous In A Sentence

  • Far Orientals begin their year when Nature begins hers, instead of starting anachronously as we do in the very middle of the dead season, much as our colleges hold their commencements, on the last in place at on the first day of the academic term. The Soul of the Far East
  • In reality, Chinese culture is a phantom from a more recent concept, projected back anachronously through time to fulfill nationalist goals. Kuo Kuan-ying = Fan Lan-chin?
  • It isn't perfect — the ending seemed to me to be anachronous — but stick with it. Times, Sunday Times
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