Meaning of antiquitary | Babel Free

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Noun. [C1]

Examples

“I know ther are many intelligent gentlemen in this age, and great antiquitaries, that questiones the truth of severall particulars contained in the historie of the Douglasses, as though that author, to magnifie above all measure these of whom he writes, doeth obscure, or, at the least, minches the reputatione of others, particularly in this action, as in severall others that occurred, in the tymes of these memories he writes off.”

“Dr. Ducarel, the antiquitary, keeper of the library at Lambeth Palace.”

““I’m a man, like everybody,” proudly replies Crillon. “It’s not that I hold by accustomary ideas; I’m not an antiquitary, but I don’t like to single-arise myself. If I’m a botcher in life, it’s cos I’m the same as others—no less,” he says, straightening up. And standing still more erect, he adds, “Nor no more, neither!””

““Count Phebon,” Ivan said, in his driest and most pedantic voice, “dislikes warriors but likes antiquitaries.[…]””

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