antiquarism

From antiquary +‎ -ism.

antiquarism (uncountable)

1. Synonym of antiquarianism
   • 1763, The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, volume 16, page 102:

     We cannot help congratulating the public on this very uncommon attempt to revive the uſeful but too much neglected art of antiquariſm.

   • 1899, Alfred Henry Lloyd, Philosophy of History: An Introduction to the Philosophical Study of Politics, page 150:

     Well, I confess my forgetfulness; but what historian, who ever gets free from mere antiquarism, can help forgetting? A modern realism surely does no greater violence to history than antiquarism.

   • 1997, Philosophia Mathematica, page 23:

     Thus, absolute antiquarism, as well as an absolute presentism, exist as tendencies, and the extreme realization of either leads to absurdity.

• antiquarist