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noun

Antiquity n. (pl. antiquities)

The quality of being ancient; ancientness; great age; as, a statue of remarkable antiquity; a family of great antiquity.

Old age. (Obs.) "It not your voice broken?... and every part about you blasted with antiquity?"

Ancient times; former ages; times long since past; as, Cicero was an eloquent orator of antiquity.

The ancients; the people of ancient times.

An old gentleman. (Obs.) "You are a shrewd antiquity, neighbor Clench."

A relic or monument of ancient times; as, a coin, a statue, etc.; an ancient institution. Note: (In this sense, usually in the plural.) "Heathen antiquities."

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Etymology of 'Antiquity'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Antiquity" Quotes from Famous Books

... and perhaps the most enjoyable, was spent outside the walls. There, everything retains its stamp of antiquity, whilst in Rome, with its hotels and shops, one might fancy oneself in Paris. This drive in the Roman Campagna has left a specially delightful impression on ...

— The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Ame): The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux • Therese Martin (of Lisieux)

... ragged-looking troop, clad every one in armour, were it but of leather. Queer helmets showed beneath their dirty head-shawls, and a few wore tattered coats of mail of high antiquity. Only their fierce bold eyes, strong spears, and clean-limbed horses kept the laugh from them. Their husky speech was full of words and phrases ...

— The Valley of the Kings • Marmaduke Pickthall

... Lambessa, a few miles from Batna, you find the ruins of a once great and magnificent Roman city, while even as far south as Biskra itself there are still to be seen relics of this great conquering nation of antiquity. ...

— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 • Various

... Philistius, and to find fault with that of Aristotle and Plato. My own opinion is that to pay too much attention to mere style and to endeavour to surpass that of other writers, is both trifling and pedantic, while any attempt to reproduce that of the unapproachable masterpieces of antiquity springs from a want of power to appreciate their real value. With regard, then, to the actions of Nikias described by Thucydides and Philistius, more especially those which illustrate his true character, having been performed under the ...

— Plutarch's Lives Volume III. • Plutarch

... probably applied originally to associated tribes in a descriptive way and perhaps used as a greeting or countersign, although there was an alternative proper descriptive term.—"Seven Council-fires"—apparently of considerable antiquity, since it seems to have been originally applied before the separation of the Asiniboin.(19) In like manner the cegiha, {LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED T}{LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN O}iwe're, and Hotcangara groups, and perhaps the Niya, were without denotive designations for themselves, merely ...

— The Siouan Indians • W. J. McGee

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