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

Used in print

(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

Synonyms

ancientness

Related terms

oldness

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