单词 | parachronism |
释义 | parachronismn. An error in chronology, esp. the placing of an event later than its real date; error of this kind. Cf. anachronism n., metachronism n. ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > [noun] > assignment to a time or dating > assignment to a wrong time or date prolepsis1578 antichronism1612 anachronicism1614 anachronism1617 metachronism1617 parachronisma1641 prochronisma1646 achronism1674 parepochism1685 anachronizing1768 anticipation1774 a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) iii. 186 I much marvaile, that..our Moderne Criticks..did not consider so great an Errour, and Parachronisme in Iustins Text. 1660 H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness v. xvi. 198 The Bride of the Lamb, he interprets of Constantine's Family and Retinue; wherein he commits a gross Parachronism. 1788 R. Porson in Museum Criticum I. 235 Parachronisms appear in the marble, respecting the age of Phidon the Argive, the assassination of Hipparchus, and the expulsion of Hippias. 1838 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 510 There is a small parachronism in the case. 1873 J. H. Smith Notes & Margin. Tennyson 114 It cannot be regarded as parachronism if the poets..refrain from cutting out the very life and essence of the original tales. 1982 Notes & Queries June 206/1 This misleading parachronism is probably due to the fact that Johnson frequently published the incoming reviews a few months later. 1999 Daily Tel. 25 Oct. 20/2 Many kind readers have offered suggestions for the word I seek to describe the constant misapplication of current feelings to events long past, designed to show us in a bad light. I am offered ‘parachronism’, ‘histolecism’ among others. Derivatives parachroˈnistic adj. rare marked by parachronism. ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > [adjective] > assigned to a date > assigned to a wrong or different date > abounding in wrong dates parachronistic1685 misdateful1862 1685 H. More Paralipomena Prophetica xii. 97 Though he have there over-much Parachronistick stuff. 1972 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 62 76/1 Use of the term ‘Suburbicaria’ is parachronistic but convenient. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1641 |
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