[f. prec. + -ISM.] The profession or pursuits of the antiquarian; taste for, or devotion to, antiquities.
1768. Warburton, Lett. late Prelate (1808), No. 211. 428 (T.). I used to despise him for his Antiquarianism.
1803. W. Taylor, in Ann. Rev., I. 439. He views the earth, neither through the telescope of antiquarianism, nor the microscope of topography.
1849. Freeman, Archit., 4. The first phase of ecclesiology was simple antiquarianism.
