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antiquity

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1. antiquity - Noun

2. Antiquity - Proper noun

Meaning

The quality of being ancient; ancientness; great age; as, a statue of remarkable antiquity; a family of great antiquity.

Old age.

Ancient times; former ages; times long since past; as, Cicero was an eloquent orator of antiquity.

The ancients; the people of ancient times.

An old gentleman.

A relic or monument of ancient times; as, a coin, a statue, etc.; an ancient institution. [In this sense, usually in the plural.]

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The prime objective of all Initiatory music in the Temples of Antiquity was to bring about physical purification and renewal, mental stimulation and alertness, spiritual exhilaration and Illumination. Ambrose

Custom is often only the antiquity of error. Cyprian

Science is a cooperative enterprise, spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher, to student, to teacher. A community of minds reaching back to antiquity and forward to the stars. Neil deGrasse Tyson

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days. Plutarch

Antiquity is entitled to respect. Latin Proverb

A proverb is the wisdom of age and antiquity. Turkish Proverb

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