antiquitarianism

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.

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

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.

1909, The World To-Day: A Monthly Record of Human Progress, page 672, column 1

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.

1971, Robert Forster, “Preface”, in The House of Saulx-Tavanes: Versailles and Burgundy, 1700-1830, published 2019, →ISBN

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, Foundations, volume 18, page 185

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.

1975, Men of the Cloth and the Social-Cultural Fabric of the Norwegian Ethnic Community in North Dakota, page 274