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- adjective Not in the correct
date order.Chronologically incorrect.
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Examples
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Finally I am requested to write about my dreams, and thus I become an anachronical grandmother; for it is the special privilege of old age to relate dreams.
The World I Live In Helen Keller 1924
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All of us, small or great nations, are now looking to you with respect, not only for the victory over a revived anachronical Paganism in Central
The Agony of the Church (1917) Nikolai Velimirovi�� 1918
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The wiretap - today no more than an anachronical metaphor, used to materialize as something - a "wiretap" - the old process that physically interfered with a telephone line (when it was basically a metal wire stretched between posts) extracting conversations containing "narratives of facts" (truthful or not, maybe even
Home 2009
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The wiretap - today no more than an anachronical metaphor, used to materialize as something - a "wiretap" - the old process that physically interfered with a telephone line (when it was basically a metal wire stretched between posts) extracting conversations containing "narratives of facts" (truthful or not, maybe even
Home 2009
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The wiretap - today no more than an anachronical metaphor, used to materialize as something - a "wiretap" - the old process that physically interfered with a telephone line (when it was basically a metal wire stretched between posts) extracting conversations containing "narratives of facts" (truthful or not, maybe even
Home 2009
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