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antiquity has definitions from the fields of antiquity,history
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[ noun ] (antiquity,history) the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe

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(J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)

What that spirit and attitude were we can best understand if we see more precisely how it contrasts with the communist tradition with the longest continuous history , the one which reached Christianity by_the_way_of Stoicism through the Church_Fathers of Late Antiquity .

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[ noun ] extreme oldness

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ancientness

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oldness

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[ noun ] (antiquity) an artifact surviving from the past

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artifact relic Roman_building stele antique

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antiquary antique antiquate antiquark antiquated anti-G_suit antiquarian Antigua anticipant

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