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    antiquity


    1. 'Look, these days antiquity thieves zone in on a target and use highly sophisticated strategies to gain possession and then they sell to the highest bidder irrespective of the damage they inflict


    2. from antiquity until the late 1800s, until it was finally


    3. Like a fallen butterfly it sounded, awash with a single cool sad note of great antiquity


    4. antiquity, with fluted columns, a triumphal arch motif to


    5. artists of antiquity had the intuition of


    6. He held her face as if he were a peasant asked to hold a marble bust of great antiquity and value


    7. important thing is that athletic and artistic contests have been held here since antiquity


    8. The works constructed by the ancient sovereigns of Egypt, for the proper distribution of the waters of the Nile, were famous in antiquity, and the ruined remains of some of them are still the admiration of travellers


    9. Antiquity of family means everywhere the antiquity either of wealth, or of that greatness which is commonly either founded upon wealth, or accompanied with it


    10. The great shepherd or herdsman, respected on account of his great wealth, and of the great number of those who depend upon him for subsistence, and revered on account of the nobleness of his birth, and of the immemorial antiquity or his illustrious family, has a natural authority over all the inferior shepherds or herdsmen of his horde or clan

    11. It is considered very important because of Sun Bin's relationship to Sun Tzu and also due to its addition to the body of military thought in late Chinese antiquity


    12. Neither Bobby nor Danielle remained immune to that feeling of historicity and antiquity


    13. Maybe this place made him uneasy because of its otherworldliness, its antiquity


    14. “The name of a many-sided movement in the 1st and 2nd centuries of the Christian era which combined the mythology and symbolism of several pagan religions with the teachings of Christ…had two characteristic features: a metaphysical dualism of matter and spirit whose origins are to be found in the physical dualism of darkness and light in the Parsic (or Persian) religion; and a doctrine of redemption, by which those who devote themselves to gnosis, or a higher knowledge, may proceed from the former to the latter realm…Much of Gnostic literature was falsely ascribed to such authors as the disciples of Jesus, Jewish prophets, heroes of antiquity, or imaginary personages…With the decline of the pagan religions around the time of Christ, a conscious movement to syncretize (attempt to smoothly unite) all religions was in progress…In the early years of Christianity, only loose boundaries were formed between the Church and contemporary cults; the syncretic movement did not exclude the new faith, nor did Christianity fail to absorb elements of foreign beliefs


    15. Man: “That, within our recollection which has the greatest antiquity, is the name EL


    16. In the greatness of the antiquity before the first recognized city-state in Mesopotamia called Ur, small communities along the Tigress and Euphrates river plain, among many others elsewhere, are thought to have coalesced around a favorite family or clan representation


    17. Powerful, smelling of pine needles of the antiquity trunks of trees, like a sentinel on his duty, were guarding the bridges on both sides


    18. Today’s China is, in Roger’s view, a gigantic and unforgettable country of bewildering vastness, dazzling antiquity and bursting prosperity


    19. from progress in the sciences by reverence for antiquity


    20. In antiquity the beginning of the year was reckoned from the start of

    21. Legends and tales from antiquity, before the arrival of mankind, seem to originate from there


    22. manuscripts of incredible antiquity and of priceless value are here to be seen-


    23. antiquity so remote that the very memory of it has been forgotten, the


    24. Many of these images are to be identified as foul deities of the Shemites, the Turanians, the Vendhyans, and the Khitans, but others are reminiscent of a hideous and half-remembered antiquity, vile shapes forgotten except in the most obscure legends


    25. Along the silent streets they moved like phantoms of antiquity


    26. The people on the Tauran were closer to the primitive than most Aquilonians; superstitions persisted, whose sources were lost in antiquity


    27. He was little interested in speculating over unremunerative problems of antiquity


    28. Conan sensed an inexplicable something about him that set him apart—an alien aura of Time and Space, a sense of tremendous and sinister antiquity


    29. Its original purpose had been forgotten, and nobody, of such as saw it at all, noticed that the apparently ancient lock which kept it from being appropriated as sleeping-quarters by beggars and thieves, was in reality comparatively new and extremely powerful, cunningly disguised into an appearance of rusty antiquity


    30. There was no mistaking its great antiquity

    31. Rachel especially enjoyed the classes on the history of warfare and became engrossed in the classic battles of antiquity


    32. These are the foremost in authority, importance, and antiquity


    33. “So? Miss, know that, in the Antiquity, women generally were not allowed to travel by themselves


    34. Sartorius proved to be a still vigorous lover and one who cared about his partner, contrary to most men of the Antiquity, who took their own pleasure for granted


    35. The people in the library paid only scant notice to her as she started sifting through the first book, one titled ‘History of humanity – From the antiquity to the present’


    36. What their exact mission was supposed to have been, we don’t know for sure at this time but we certainly won’t let the World Council conduct that mission or relocate those installations to another spot in the Antiquity


    37. However, what would constitute a despicable crime in modern times was normal and perfectly legal here in the Antiquity


    38. antiquity and the still present feel of a living, though faded past


    39. They burned libraries of knowledge collected over centuries, they utterly destroyed buildings and structures of significance and antiquity; even raping and killing with wicked delight


    40. Bearing in mind the antiquity of the original

    41. Much of the splendor and culture of the Roman and Greek Antiquity has vanished, replaced by barbarism, religious obscurantism and intolerance


    42. As one era of artistic movement moves in and another fades into antiquity, there are always those who will put down another artist idea of excellence


    43. kings and priest of antiquity offered to their gods and ate themselves? Was


    44. A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones


    45. whole of antiquity numbered the brightest of these visible heavenly bod-


    46. seven in our lives are found throughout antiquity


    47. Obviously, the antiquity of history had lost track of the other prophets, leaving the legend of Muhammad to rule the roost as the ‘Seal of the Prophets’, and to mould the sharia, clouding the mind of the Musalmans in the bargain


    48. In today’s world, for reasons locked in antiquity, a large number of


    49. Topical application of honey has been used since antiquity to accelerate skin wound


    50. ” she answered, staring with a cataracted antiquity in her visitor's general direction











































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    Synonyms for "antiquity"

    antiquity ancientness days of yore old age age

    "antiquity" definitions

    the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe


    extreme oldness


    an artifact surviving from the past