Preposition: from

• era: He is an anachronism from a past era, somehow transported to 2004 and mysteriously alive.

• age: This contract is a hang-over, and in 21st-Century Britain, an anachronism from a bygone age.

Converse of object

• avoid: They argue that P was quite careful in his use of Yahweh in order to avoid anachronisms.

• become: In many ways the Order had become an anachronism.

• involve: The story involves palpable anachronisms as Johnson's only visit to Glasgow was before Hume's death.

• have: Now we have here a patent anachronism which destroys the possibility that this book was really written by the Apostle Barnabas.

• remain: The Lodge remained an anachronism, and was allowed to decline.

• contain: Taken from engravings, these images of monuments contain certain anachronisms.

Adjective modifier

• deliberate: Peter Watkins uses TV broadcasting, a deliberate anachronism, to stage his tale of the Paris Commune.

• historical: I went into the film having resolved not to allow my enjoyment to be spoiled by any historical anachronisms I happened to spot.

• complete: Its lack of any dramatic reconstructions, meanwhile, renders it a complete anachronism.

• such: Much of the comedy revolved around such anachronisms, with the 18thcentury protagonists often using 20thcentury references and visited by modern-day concerns.

• creative: Maybe it's poetic justice, maybe creative anachronism, or maybe a circle of interpretation.

• glaring: I imagine the historians of the period, both social and military, will have found lots more glaring anachronisms.

Preposition: in

• century: We have also identified the MP filter as a specific barrier to the public's access which is an anachronism in the 21st Century.

• society: State religion is an anachronism in a globalized society, and rights, not religion, should determine social conduct.

• age: Some may protest that this special link between state and church has become an anachronism in an age so secular as ours.