Meaning of antiquitarianism | Babel Free

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Noun. [C2]

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“Always a man that would fly at high game rather than at inferior birds, he had no hesitation in attempting a reply even to this tract of the renowned Irish Primate, which might be regarded as Antiquitarianism at its best.”

“But it probably will be new ground to tread in the after part of the book, where the author deals with the influence of Alexander’s career upon historiography; with the influence of philosophy and the rise of antiquitarianism; and with the influence of Greek upon Roman historiography.”

“Abandoning all claims to the typicality of the family in any statistical sense does not mean retreating to antiquitarianism and the quaintness of the particular.”

“The writings of the Congregationalist theologian and churchman, P.T. Forsyth, are only slowly being recognized. However, the company of those who hear a truly Christian and prophetic voice in Forsyth keeps growing. We reprint these few, out of the past as well as the present: / Forsyth’s emphases are timely and modern. It seems to me that he will take his place among preachers and theologians who will be read profitably for many generations to come, not on grounds of theological antiquitarianism, but as speaking that language of the centuries which makes all Christians contemporary. (Gordon Rupp)”

“With historians like Marcus Lee Hansen, concern for the immigrants' contributions to the American tapestry and the roots of these patterns in the lands from which they emigrated became a serious scholarly endeavor. This acknowledgement is more than antiquitarianism or philiopietism.”

“While antiquitarianism developed in the Sung, examples of clerical extant from the 10-12th centuries are rare.”

“This particular work, quite negative in its outlook, is a caustic critique of German society and suggests that German art, in its desire for modernity, vacillates between empty newness and wasted antiquitarianism.”

“It is true that Ramsay’s cantos are occasionally weakened by a self-concious^([sic]) antiquitarianism as seen in the old-fashioned marriage customs, such as the ‘bedding of the bride’ and the ‘riding of the stang’, of which he makes too much; but these are minor faults in an otherwise lively and brilliant piece of work.”

“Ōgai’s antiquitarianism was thus also something of a flight into the past and, at the same time, a grudging, unresolved capitulation to the modern.”

“The fact that the terms active life and contemplative life have now fallen out of use is important. For Miller’s interest in appropriating a distinction that has long ceased to flourish in our explicit discourse might suggest that his philosophical project is an exercise in antiquitarianism.”

“He asks us to “criticize the field of Jewish studies for both its antiquitarianism and conservatism.””

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