Vocabulary Word
Word: anachronism
Definition: an error involving time in a story; something or someone misplaced in time; ADJ. anachronistic
Definition: an error involving time in a story; something or someone misplaced in time; ADJ. anachronistic
Sentences Containing 'anachronism'
Shelton had the inestimable advantage of belonging to the same generation as Cervantes; "Don Quixote" had to him a vitality that only a contemporary could feel; it cost him no dramatic effort to see things as Cervantes saw them; there is no anachronism in his language; he put the Spanish of Cervantes into the English of Shakespeare.
So I don't think any of us said very much about time travelling in the interval between that Thursday and the next, though its odd potentialities ran, no doubt, in most of our minds: its plausibility, that is, its practical incredibleness, the curious possibilities of anachronism and of utter confusion it suggested.
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