(~s)
1.
You say that something is an ~ when you think that it is out of date or old-fashioned.
The President tended to regard the Church as an ~.
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2.
An ~ is something in a book, play, or film that is wrong because it did not exist at the time the book, play, or film is set.
The last paragraph contains an ~. The Holy Office no longer existed at that time.
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