anachorism

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  1. Something inconsistent with or not suited to the character of the country to which it is referred. [Rare.] There is a sort of opinions, anachronisms at once and anachorisms, foreign both to the age and the country, that maintain a feeble and buzzing existence, scarce to be called life. Lowell, Biglow Papers, 2d ser., p. 79.

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  1. from Greek ἀνά, back, + χώρα, or χῶρος, country, + -ism; formed in imitation of anachronism.
 

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