Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of antiquating, or the state of being antiquated.
- noun In Roman law, repeal, as of a law; abrogation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of making antiquated, or the state of being antiquated.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The process of becoming
antique orobsolete . - noun countable Something that is antique or obsolete.
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Examples
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By 1809, well-known Worcester resident Isaiah Thomas was referring to the “old road for Boston,” and when a couple New York newspapers spoke of the “old Boston Post Road” several years later, the antiquation was official.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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By 1809, well-known Worcester resident Isaiah Thomas was referring to the “old road for Boston,” and when a couple New York newspapers spoke of the “old Boston Post Road” several years later, the antiquation was official.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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By 1809, well-known Worcester resident Isaiah Thomas was referring to the “old road for Boston,” and when a couple New York newspapers spoke of the “old Boston Post Road” several years later, the antiquation was official.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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Doolittle set a devastating tone early, revealing himself to be a 97-year-old man with a vicious trifecta of antiquation, using the words “hooligans,” “flim-flam man,” and “hobnobs” in machine gun succession.
Midterm Roundup 2009
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In Crichton's view, arrogance leads to stasis and antiquation.
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I think in many ways it's antiquated as Victoria said, but I don't think that antiquation is in and of itself a justification for wholesale disregard of it with respect to the things that it covers, whatever counts as domestic surveillance.
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It could include huge storehouses to keep deposit copies of all publications, search engines to maintain all important electronic communication in the realm of culture, and technological devices of all sorts used to transmit cultural products, from phonograph records and film projectors to floppy disks and computers — everything endangered by antiquation.
'The Great Book Massacre': An Exchange Baker, Shirley K. 2002
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Evander Holyfield boxes a horse for the heavyweight title; Fenway Park plans a "massive antiquation" to return to its 1912 look that add an extra dimension to recognizable
NYT > Home Page By RICHARD SANDOMIR 2011
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She said reclassification would open the door to a network neutrality policy that is the equivalent to the "fairness doctrine for the Internet" and a "permanent antiquation" of the
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* antiquation, or the obsolescence of content or format (VHS, compact cassette, vinyl record)
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