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anachronistically

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a·nach·ro·nism  (-nkr-nzm)
n.
1. The representation of someone as existing or something as happening in other than chronological, proper, or historical order.
2. One that is out of its proper or chronological order, especially a person or practice that belongs to an earlier time: "A new age had plainly dawned, an age that made the institution of a segregated picnic seem an anachronism" (Henry Louis Gates, Jr.)

[French anachronisme, from New Latin anachronismus, from Late Greek anakhronismos, from anakhronizesthai, to be an anachronism : Greek ana-, ana- + Greek khronizein, to take time (from khronos, time).]

a·nachro·nistic, a·nachro·nous (-ns) adj.
a·nachro·nisti·cal·ly, a·nachro·nous·ly adv.
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Adv.1.anachronistically - in an anachronistic manner; "let's look at this phenomenon anachronistically"


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The English title mistakenly emphasizes a homogeneous entity ("Europe") in reference to an anachronistically loaded term ("home"), an imprecise concept ("family"), and an anodyne topical identification ("material culture").
On the contrary, Shakespeare's plays almost always depict powerful prelates as disagreeable, and his little-known history play King John, though set in the early thirteenth century, attacks the Pope in highly charged, anachronistically Protestant terms.
 
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