anachronism

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A decade after Hutton's appointment this anachronism was abolished and cricketers became simply players.

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  1. noun The representation of someone as existing or something as happening in other than chronological, proper, or historical order.
  2. noun One that is out of its proper or chronological order, especially a person or practice that belongs to an earlier time: "A new age had plainly dawned, an age that made the institution of a segregated picnic seem an anachronism” (Henry Louis Gates, Jr.)

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  • He supposed that made him an anachronism, a guy who didn't know or care much about the quintessential guy thing, but as long as the thing got him to work, that was all that mattered. —  Chapter1
  • The whole breeding thing is an anachronism--twenty-first century ritual torture we don't need anymore. —  Fantasy and Science Fiction - [Vol 111] - Issue 04-05 - October-November 2006
  • An anachronism, a retrograde voyager, an affront to the new serious spirit of reform. —  F ;SF; - vol 086 issue 06 - June 1994
  • The man was an anachronism, an old-school cop who had stubbornly and arrogantly refused to adapt as times-and law enforcement-changed all around him. —  Chapter1Rabbit
  • A decade after Hutton's appointment this anachronism was abolished and cricketers became simply players. —  Blogs navigation
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  1. French anachronisme, from New Latin anachronismus, from Late Greek anakhronismos, from anakhronizesthai, to be an anachronism : Greek ana-, ana- + Greek khronizein, to take time (from khronos, time).

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  1. = French anachronisme, from Greek ἀναχρονισμός, from ἀναχρονίζειν, refer to a wrong time, only in passive ἀναχρονίζεσθαι, be an anachronism, from ἀνά), back, against, + χρόνος, time: see chronic.
 

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