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Rfv-sense "(invariable) A written account of history." A written account from antiquity might be an antiquity, but I have never heard antiquities used to describe a written account of history. Is it an antiquities, or is it uncountable we know about life then from antiquities? - TheDaveRoss 18:08, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
- When the entry was created, this was the only sense, and it was labelled (uncountable). Perhaps there is some confusion with accounts of history referred to by the shortened title Antiquities, such as seen e.g. here, where it refers to Josephus’ Antiquities of the Jews, and here, where it refers to Varro’s Antiquitates rerum humanarum et divinarum. --Lambiam 15:04, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 21:35, 1 June 2019 (UTC)