- 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.]
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