anachronistn.
/əˈnakrənɪst/, U.S. /əˈnækrənəst/ A person who commits an anachronism or anachronisms. Also: a person belonging or appropriate to another time (esp. an earlier one).
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the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [noun] > anachronism > one who is out of harmony with his time
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1842 T. De Quincey Pagan Oracles in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 291/2 Modern appraisers of the oracular establishments are too commonly in all moral senses anachronists.
1874 Spectator 16 May 633/2 That singular school of anachronists who think they utter the ultimate word of wisdom when they revive the pardonable fallacies of the great reactionist of the eighteenth century.
1900 Dial 1 Dec. 435/2 The occurrences of that momentous stretch of years requires a skilled anachronist for chronicler, since the Argonauts and King Lear both find a place between its opening and close.
1963 Times 29 Mar. 15/5 His music was already anachronistic while he was composing it,..which means that he was speaking for himself (and other Russian anachronists, no doubt), not for his own time.
1997 Australian (Nexis) 21 Apr. 13 The great anachronist Shakespeare endowed his republican Romans with chiming clocks.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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