antichronism

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antichronism (countable and uncountable, plural antichronisms)

Deviation from the true order of time; anachronism.
- 1612, John Selden, notes upon Poly-Olbion 4[1]:
  […] many grosse absurdities in our Chronologies, which are by transcribing, interpolation, misprinting, and creeping in of antichronismes now and then strangely disordered.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “antichronism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)