# antiquitarianism
## English
### Etymology

From antiquitarian +‎ -ism.

### Noun

antiquitarianism (uncountable)
* Alternative form of antiquarianism
** 1871, David Masson, “Chapter IV. Three Anti-Episcopal Pamphlets of Milton”, in The Life of John Milton: Narrated in Connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time, volume II, London and New York: Macmillan and Co., page 251:Always a man that would fly at high game rather than at inferior birds, he had no hesitation in attempting a reply even to this tract of the renowned Irish Primate, which might be regarded as Antiquitarianism at its best.
** 1909, The World To-Day: A Monthly Record of Human Progress, page 672, column 1:But it probably will be new ground to tread in the after part of the book, where the author deals with the influence of Alexander’s career upon historiography; with the influence of philosophy and the rise of antiquitarianism; and with the influence of Greek upon Roman historiography.
** 1971, Robert Forster, “Preface”, in The House of Saulx-Tavanes: Versailles and Burgundy, 1700-1830, published 2019, →ISBN:Abandoning all claims to the typicality of the family in any statistical sense does not mean retreating to antiquitarianism and the quaintness of the particular.
** 1975, Foundations, volume 18, page 185:The writings of the Congregationalist theologian and churchman, P.T. Forsyth, are only slowly being recognized. However, the company of those who hear a truly Christian and prophetic voice in Forsyth keeps growing. We reprint these few, out of the past as well as the present: / Forsyth’s emphases are timely and modern. It seems to me that he will take his place among preachers and theologians who will be read profitably for many generations to come, not on grounds of theological antiquitarianism, but as speaking that language of the centuries which makes all Christians contemporary. (Gordon Rupp)
** 1975, Men of the Cloth and the Social-Cultural Fabric of the Norwegian Ethnic Community in North Dakota, page 274:With historians like Marcus Lee Hansen, concern for the immigrants' contributions to the American tapestry and the roots of these patterns in the lands from which they emigrated became a serious scholarly endeavor. This acknowledgement is more than antiquitarianism or philiopietism.
** 1987, Hsien-yü Shu’s Calligraphy and His “Admonitions” Scroll of 1299, page 192:While antiquitarianism developed in the Sung, examples of clerical extant from the 10-12th centuries are rare.
** 1994, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, volume 53, page 17, column 2:This particular work, quite negative in its outlook, is a caustic critique of German society and suggests that German art, in its desire for modernity, vacillates between empty newness and wasted antiquitarianism.
** 1996, The Christis Kirk Tradition: Scots Poems of Folk Festivity, →ISBN, page 55:It is true that Ramsay’s cantos are occasionally weakened by a self-concious antiquitarianism as seen in the old-fashioned marriage customs, such as the ‘bedding of the bride’ and the ‘riding of the stang’, of which he makes too much; but these are minor faults in an otherwise lively and brilliant piece of work.
** 1999, Poetica, page 76:Ōgai’s antiquitarianism was thus also something of a flight into the past and, at the same time, a grudging, unresolved capitulation to the modern.
** 2005, Michael J. McGandy, “Introduction: The Active and Contemplative Laws”, in The Active Life: Miller’s Metaphysics of Democracy, State University of New York, →ISBN, page 2:The fact that the terms active life and contemplative life have now fallen out of use is important. For Miller’s interest in appropriating a distinction that has long ceased to flourish in our explicit discourse might suggest that his philosophical project is an exercise in antiquitarianism.
** 2015, David A. Wacks, “1. Diaspora Studies for Sephardic Culture”, in Double Diaspora in Sephardic Literature: Jewish Cultural Production Before and After 1492, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 18:He asks us to “criticize the field of Jewish studies for both its antiquitarianism and conservatism.”