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• Virtually all modern scholars of antiquity agree that Jesus existed historically.From the entry historically
• Our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity.From the entry ascend
• In Korea, a huge Buddhist bell of even greater antiquity still exists.2007, Brian J. Coman, A Loose Canon, page 8. From the entry ringable
• Virtually all of the formal investigations of the Alberta ribstones have led to conclusions of great antiquity.2004, Carol Diaz-Granados, James R. Duncan, The Rock-Art of Eastern North America, page 142. From the entry ribstone
• They weren't ponies, I was told, but real horses – the strain being of great antiquity.2002, Elizabeth Jane Howard, “Part Three”, in Slipstream: A Memoir, London: Macmillan, →ISBN; republished London: Pan Macmillan, 2003…. From the entry Skyriot
• Plant and animal species of hoary antiquity or at an evolutionary dead end seem similarly outdated.1985, David Lowenthal, The Past is a Foreign Country, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 242. From the entry hoary
• These were similar to machines known in antiquity to Rome and Byzantium.1980, Chris Cook, John Stevenson, Weapons of War. From the entry springal
• Freedom, peace and unity belong to antiquity but they have to be modernised.1970, Ram Chandra Jain, Ethnology of Ancient Bhārata, page xxxii. From the entry antiquitisation
• The local place-name 'Chapel Gate' — 'the road to the Chapel' — is of some antiquity (J.1966, in the Report of the Manx Archaeological Survey, volume 6, page 61. From the entry keeill
• The animal relics are, however, antiquous and their antiquity may be traced to the remote past.1966, Orissa District Gazetteers: Baleshwar, page 57. From the entry antiquous
• Beginning in antiquity, it narrates wars, wanderings, the diasporae, rebellions, persecutions, individual and collective triumphs and survivals.1966, Publishers Weekly, volume 189, page 81, column 2. From the entry diasporae
• Fundamentally, the doctrine and technique of Kāma go back to primitive antiquity.1956, Heinrich Robert Zimmer, Philosophies of India, page 145. From the entry kama
• In front of each hung a shabby bit of rombowline, dating from antiquity.1929, Viola Irene Cooper, Windjamming to Fiji, New York: A. L. Burt Company, →OCLC, page 114. From the entry rombowline
• We are thankful to the author for sparing us learned historical disquisitions about the antiquity of Egypt.1908 December 12, “Some Christmas Books. [A Book about Egypt.]”, in Alfred Holman, editor, The Argonaut, volume LXIII, number 1655, San…. From the entry disquisition
• In the Western academy, the study of antiquity has moved toward a more fractious, intercultural vision of the past.2026 March 8, Chang Che, “How China Learned to Love the Classics”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN…. From the entry Straussianism
• Mike took it from the top: "Haste is inharmonious with dimlit antiquity (now Paul chimed in) and timeless music."2010, Aubrey Bart, The Bluesiana Snake Festival, page 59. From the entry dimlit
• Cast in dark bronze and resembling Roman antiquities, Riccio's small-scale statuettes, reliefs and oil lamps seem unremarkably modest at first.2009 January 2, The New York Times, “Museum and Gallery Listings”, in New York Times. From the entry unremarkably
• And on the walls, strange paintings, of an exultating colouring, of paradoxical lines, since they showed freshness and an indefinable antiquity.2000, Carlos del Pulgar Sabín, Artists Painters: Regionalism III, page 256. From the entry exultating
• Whether you enjoy coins for their beauty, history, romance, or antiquity, these ancient Roman antoninianuses are sure to please.1985 January, “Treasures of the Roman Empire”, in Special Coin Letter, number 1005, page 5. From the entry antoninianus
• And we were, without stopping to admire any antiquities.1953, Gratix Dawson, In Pursuit of the Vine, H. Jenkins, page 196. From the entry twenty-three
• Such inculpation of a commanding general is a novel argument in antiquity, and unusual even in modern times.1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “VI. Orestea. I: Agamemnon”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 165. From the entry inculpation
• This was a useful and popular work, though it omitted from its scope theology, biography, antiquity and poetry.1920, George Edwin Rines, editor, Encyclopedia Americana^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Encyclopedia_Americana_(1920)), Volume X…. From the entry encyclopedia
• The origin of the corset is lost in remote antiquity.1919, B. G. Jefferis, J. L. Nichols, Searchlights on Health. From the entry figure
• To introduce into philosophical discussions a sneer at a creed's antiquity is like introducing a sneer at a lady's age.1908, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “The Case for the Ephemeral”, in All Things Considered. From the entry caddish
• Free reed instruments such as this shō and its Chinese forebear, the sheng, have been known in East and Southeast Asia since antiquity.2015, J. Kenneth Moore, Jayson Kerr Dobney, E Bradley Strachen-Scherer, Musical Instruments: Highlights of The Metropolitan Museum of Art…. From the entry shō
• In the trousers-and-jacket we evidently have a garment of great antiquity, the origin of which I have not yet succeeded in tracing.1993, Erich Brauer, Raphael Patai, The Jews of Kurdistan, page 84. From the entry Aissor
• Some, perhaps, are Tibetanizations of earlier Sanskrit or Prakrit forms now irretrievably lost, for there is about the entire passage a definite aura of antiquity.1993, Martin J. Boord, The Cult Of The Deity Vajrakīla, Tring: Institute of Buddhist Studies, →ISBN, page 191. From the entry Tibetanization
• On the entire width and breadth of this sandy elevation, a variety of funerial remains and relics of antiquity were found from various time periods.1985, Polish Genealogical Society Newsletter, Volume 7, Issue 2. From the entry funerial
• "My friend is interested in antiquities—"1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards…. From the entry gloss over
• A common theme ran throughout their history: they were the fiercest of fighters, and eventually bred to fight—in wars during antiquity, in dog fights for centuries.2012, Michael Bryant, 28 Seconds: A True Story of Addiction, Tragedy, and Hope, Viking. From the entry fierce
• The use of the brush-pen and lampblack ink as the basic vehicle for committing thoughts to writing can be traced back to remote antiquity in China.2011, Tsuen-hsuin Tsien, Collected Writings on Chinese Culture, →ISBN, page 3. From the entry brush-pen
• Egyptian antiquities supremo Zahi Hawass insisted Tuesday that Tutankhamun was not black despite calls by US black activists to recognise the boy king's dark skin colour.Sep 25, 2007 - Tutankhamun was not black: Egypt antiquities chief (AFP). From the entry supremo
• This natural alloy is known as electrum although in classical antiquity where the word originated it seems to have been used for an artificial alloy of the two metals.1995, Paul T. Craddock, Early Metal Mining and Production, page 111. From the entry electrum
• The first reference to the shark is lost in antiquity; there is an aboriginal drawing in Australia that shows a sharklike creature in the act of eating a man.1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 14. From the entry sharklike
• I've been mouching around trying to hit the trail of an antiquity or two, but I don't seem to know the way to pick it up.1925, G. K. Chesterton, “The Unobstrusive Traffic of Captain Pierce”, in Tales of the Long Bow. From the entry mouch
• Egyptian wisdom, which possessed an antiquity that made Greece seem tyronic, elucidated the traditions of the Greek heroic past, as well as the science that the Ionian thinkers had conceived.2014, James Allan Stewart Evans, Herodotus, Explorer of the Past: Three Essays, page 141. From the entry tyronic
• This feature is the ocellation of the tail feathers of the male of the species, whose brilliant plumage earned its reputation since antiquity as the most beautiful of all birds.1997, Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle, Loyola's Acts: The Rhetoric of the Self, →ISBN, page 111. From the entry ocellation

Meaning of antiquity

1. noun Ancient times; faraway history; former ages.
2. noun The people of ancient times.
3. noun An old gentleman.

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How do you use antiquity in a sentence?

Antiquity is used as a noun. For example: “Cicero was an eloquent orator of antiquity.”

What is a short sentence with antiquity?

“"My friend is interested in antiquities—"”

What does antiquity mean?

Antiquity means ancient times; faraway history; former ages.