Antiquity

n.	1.	The quality of being ancient; ancientness; great age; as, a statue of remarkable antiquity; a family of great antiquity.
	2.	Old age. It not your voice broken? . . . and every part about you blasted with antiquity? - Shak.
	3.	Ancient times; former ages; times long since past; as, Cicero was an eloquent orator of antiquity.
	4.	The ancients; the people of ancient times. That such pillars were raised by Seth all antiquity has vowed. - Sir W. Raleigh.
	5.	An old gentleman. You are a shrewd antiquity, neighbor Clench. - B. Jonson.
	6.	A relic or monument of ancient times; as, a coin, a statue, etc.; an ancient institution. [In this sense, usually in the plural.]

Noun	1.	antiquity - the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe
	2.	antiquity - extreme oldness Synonyms: ancientness
	3.	antiquity - an artifact surviving from the past

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