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ANACHRONOUS

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a⋅nach⋅ro⋅nous

  [uh-nak-ruh-nuhs]
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–adjective
misplaced in time; anachronistic.
Origin:
1850–55; anachron(ism) + -ous

Related forms:
a⋅nach⋅ro⋅nous⋅ly, adverb
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a·nach·ro·nism   (ə-nāk'rə-nĭz'əm)   
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·nach'ro·nis'tic, a·nach'ro·nous (-nəs) adj., a·nach'ro·nis'ti·cal·ly, a·nach'ro·nous·ly adv.
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