Meanings (ES + gloss)
anacronismo • anacronía
A chronological mistake; the erroneous dating of an event, circumstance, or object.
Indeed, that Hall of the Upper Temple is a sight not uninteresting, and with the exception of some trifling improvements and anachronisms which have been introduced into the practi…
[W]e beg the reader to understand that we only commit anachronisms when we choose and when by a daring violation of those natural laws some great ethical truth is to be advanced [……
anacronismo • anacronía
A person or thing which seems to belong to a different time or period of time.
His movements, his clothes, everything about him, seemed slightly out of place in this assembly. He spoiled the pattern; like Alvin, he was an anachronism.
You are too young—it is an anachronism for you to have such thoughts
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