antiquatingn.
/ˈantᵻkweɪtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈæn(t)əˌkweɪdɪŋ/ 1. The action of consigning something to the past; the process of becoming obsolete or disused. Cf. antiquation n. 1.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [noun] > old-fashionedness > rendering or becoming
antiquation1607
antiquating1617
fossilization1862
1617 S. Collins Epphata to F. T. ii. 105 What is that to the antiquating of the Decree of a Synode, and so populous a Synode as this was?
1738 S. Smith Hist. Lives Our Blessed Saviour Jesus Christ II. 247 [Paul] discourses at large of the Nature and Institution, the End and Design, the antiquating and abolishing of that Mosaic Covenant.
1906 Times 1 Oct. 4/5 This wilful premature antiquating of good vessels is a growing and a wanton evil.
2006 Nation (Pakistan) (Nexis) 8 Jan. Memory..has no sense of passage of time; it denies the antiquating of its objects and insists on their continuing presence.
2. The action of causing something to seem older than it actually is; the creation of an appearance of age or antiquity. Cf. antiquation n. 3.
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1844 Ecclesiologist 3 110 As no antiquating will make a bad window look ancient, so none is necessary to make a really good one fairly comparable with the works of old.
2019 E. Janik tr. M. J. Calic Great Cauldron ii. 20 The ‘antiquating’ of folk and national histories is a familiar means of identity construction.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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