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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Antiquity \An*tiq"ui*ty\, n.; pl {Antiquities}. [L. antiquitas fr antiquus: cf F. antiquit['e]. See {Antique}.] 1. The quality of being ancient; ancientness; great age; as a statue of remarkable antiquity; a family of great antiquity. 2. Old age. [Obs.] It not your voice broken? . . . and every part about you blasted with antiquity? --Shak. 3. Ancient times; former ages; times long since past; as Cicero was an eloquent orator of antiquity. 4. The ancients; the people of ancient times. That such pillars were raised by Seth all antiquity has ?vowed. --Sir W. Raleigh. 5. An old gentleman. [Obs.] You are a shrewd antiquity, neighbor Clench. --B. Jonson 6. A relic or monument of ancient times; as a coin, a statue, etc.; an ancient institution. Note: [In this sense usually in the plural.] ``Heathen antiquities.'' --Bacon. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: antiquity n 1: the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe 2: extreme oldness [syn: {ancientness}] 3: an artifact surviving from the past
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