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Antiquarianism

Antiquarianism \An`ti*qua"ri*an*ism\, n. Character of an antiquary; study or love of antiquities.
--Warburton.

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antiquarianism

n. 1 Study or love of antiques; this sense is never pluralized 2 Study or love of antiquity; this sense is never pluralized 3 archaism

Usage examples of "antiquarianism".

Willett is certain that, up to this ill-omened winter of first change, Charles Ward's antiquarianism was free from every trace of the morbid.

Instead, they are strange and archaic, as if the snapping of the writer's mind had released a flood of tendencies and impressions picked up unconsciously through boyhood antiquarianism.