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  • noun Plural form of antiquarian.

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Examples

  • "antiquarians" at once produced a large scale map; but it was not an English map: it had, for instance, details on it regarding water supply tanks which, though they existed, were not shown on any of our ordnance maps!

    My Adventures as a Spy Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baden-Powell of Gilwell 1899

  • Some day the antiquarians will decide the authorship.

    CHAPTER XXIX 2010

  • How insanely stupid is it when a group of anti-tax antiquarians liken themselves to those who threw the East India Company's tea into Boston Harbor in 1773, and claim they want to protect the Constitution from the evil grip of liberals, yet are being backstopped by some of the most powerful corporate interests in the world?

    Joseph A. Palermo: Citizens United -- Game Changer Joseph A. Palermo 2010

  • How insanely stupid is it when a group of anti-tax antiquarians liken themselves to those who threw the East India Company's tea into Boston Harbor in 1773, and claim they want to protect the Constitution from the evil grip of liberals, yet are being backstopped by some of the most powerful corporate interests in the world?

    Joseph A. Palermo: Citizens United -- Game Changer Joseph A. Palermo 2010

  • How insanely stupid is it when a group of anti-tax antiquarians liken themselves to those who threw the East India Company's tea into Boston Harbor in 1773, and claim they want to protect the Constitution from the evil grip of liberals, yet are being backstopped by some of the most powerful corporate interests in the world?

    Joseph A. Palermo: Citizens United -- Game Changer Joseph A. Palermo 2010

  • This has nothing to do with nostalgia; these novelists have no use for the sentimentality of antiquarians.

    A Hungarian Novelist's Literature of Fidelity Eric Ormsby 2011

  • How insanely stupid is it when a group of anti-tax antiquarians liken themselves to those who threw the East India Company's tea into Boston Harbor in 1773, and claim they want to protect the Constitution from the evil grip of liberals, yet are being backstopped by some of the most powerful corporate interests in the world?

    Joseph A. Palermo: Citizens United -- Game Changer Joseph A. Palermo 2010

  • You always know you have uncovered a deep vein of linguistic continuity when a vast array of cheerfully conflicting etymologies opens up among nineteenth-century antiquarians.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • In the late 18th century, these designs found their way into the parlors of posh English homes, thanks to the sketches of the antiquarians James Dawkins and Robert Wood, who visited Palmyra in 1751.

    Temple of the 'Bride of the Desert' Christian C. Sahner 2011

  • You always know you have uncovered a deep vein of linguistic continuity when a vast array of cheerfully conflicting etymologies opens up among nineteenth-century antiquarians.

    True Blue 2009

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