Something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred

Usage examples of anachronism.

It does not, I should suppose, lie in the way of The Century, whose general audience on both sides of the Atlantic takes only an amused interest in this singular revival of a traditional literary animosity--an anachronism in these tolerant days when the reading world cares less and less about the origin of literature that pleases it--it does not lie in the way of The Century to do more than report this phenomenal literary effervescence.

Not simply in terms of the popular image of an anachronism surviving past its time, as if in a Vemlan romance where dinosaurs were found in an Amazon swamp.

Murder coming, yes, anachronism aplenty in the deep Cretaceous, but it was all the same to her and everything would come out even in those dark, sweet depths.

Rannirl had said that Keepers like Elorie were an anachronism in this day and age.

But Phaethon saw anachronism, since the Bellipotent Composition was not composed until ninety years after the anti-Warlock weapons had been superseded by far deadlier arrangements.

The idea of a Court of Law, the idea that men must be compelled by the threat of force to abide by civilized rules, might be a hideous anachronism in this enlightened day and age.

Anderson, his wife and daughter also belong to a most unusual organization called The Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc.

And even among reforming writers who could wax indignant at every other kind of abuse and anachronism, there was little enthusiasm for some sort of nonvenal, bureaucratic state.

Bastille became more of an anachronism, its demonology became more and more important in defining opposition to state power.

Transfigured from a nearly empty, thinly manned anachronism into the seat of the Beast Despotism, it incorporated all those rejoicing at its capture as members of the new community of the Nation.

When did the Society for Creative Anachronisms get involved in this project?

Peers extend to each other would have included avoiding the introductions of anachronisms into a mansion famed for its authenticity.

In the same way, other apparent anachronisms would be simply the achievements of races older than man.

Turgot the event was a costly and badly managed entertainment that pandered to ludicrous anachronisms like the sacred ampoule of oil, allegedly supplied to King Clovis by a divinely dispatched dove.

It conjured up a society so encrusted with anachronisms that only a shock of great violence could free the living organism within.