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Anachronistic (adj) means belonging to a period other than the one it is set in, or old-fashioned and out of place now.

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Belonging to a period other than the one it is set in, or old-fashioned and out of place now.

"The 'liberalism' issue that perplexed Catholics in the 1880s was by 1914 increasingly anachronistic, as political liberalism won resoundingly (in France), or lost resoundingly (in Austria), or became fragmented and divided (in Germany)." — John W. Boyer, 1: Catholics, Christians and the Challenges of Democracy: The Heritage of the Nineteenth Century (2004)

"In their daily practices, journalists often perpetuated ageing and increasingly anachronistic ideologies, but they were rarely, in fact, dominated by them." — Brian Moeran, Asian Media Productions (2013)

"If you know where to look in the movie, you can spot an anachronistic wrist watch on one of the Roman soldiers."

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