antiquarism en · NOUN
Etymology
From antiquary + -ism.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Synonym of antiquarianism.
Well, I confess my forgetfulness; but what historian, who ever gets free from mere antiquarism, can help forgetting? A modern realism surely does no greater violence to history than antiquarism.
1899, Alfred Henry Lloyd, Philosophy of History: An Introduction to the Philosophical Study of Politics, page 150:We cannot help congratulating the public on this very uncommon attempt to revive the uſeful but too much neglected art of antiquariſm.
1763, The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, volume 16, page 102:Thus, absolute antiquarism, as well as an absolute presentism, exist as tendencies, and the extreme realization of either leads to absurdity.
1997, Philosophia Mathematica, page 23: