Noun
A misplacing or error in the order of time; an error in chronology by which events are misplaced in regard to each other, esp. one by which an event is placed too early; falsification of chronological relation.
Source: Webster's dictionaryOne shouldn't write one's own epitaph. I hope people will remember me as one who did her best - and who wasn't an anachronism. Margrethe II of Denmark
When you stroll through Munich it can happen that you suddenly stand in front of an old house, an idyllically-dreaming church that smiles like a friendly anachronism into our modern time. Joseph Goebbels
When I look around today, the biggest anachronism I see is pregnancy. I just can't believe that people are still pregnant. Andy Warhol
This is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism. Minnie Maddern Fiske
Mere by-blows are the world and we, And time within eternity A sheer anachronism. John Davidson
Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism. Oscar Wilde