Historical study focusing on the empirical evidence of the past, including manuscripts and archives, and archaeological and historic sites and artifacts. The term is now often used in a pejorative sense, to refer to an excessively narrow interest in historical trivia, to the exclusion of a sense of historical context or process.
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• (n.) Character of an antiquary; study or love of antiquities.
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(from the article `architecture, Western`) ...century, when the Gothic Revival moved from a phase of sentimental and picturesque attraction to one of greater archaeological exactitude, was ...
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An`ti·qua'ri·an·ism noun Character of an antiquary; study or love of antiquities.
Warburton. Found on
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