"antiquitist" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1828, Joseph Ritson, “Annals of the Picts”, in Annals of the Caledonians, Picts, and Scots; and of Strathclyde, Cumberland, Galloway, and Murray, volume the first, Edinburgh: […] W. and D. Laing; and Payne and Foss, […] London, section “Introduction”, page 74",
          "text": "“But,” he adds, “finding Tacitus, Eumenius, Ammianus Marcellinus, and Beda, in full and direct opposition to this idea, [certainly false with respect to the first and two last, if not to the second;] and not choosing to imitate our Scotish antiquitists in fighting against authorities,[which is nevertheless his constant practice,] I was forced to abandon this ground. … For ancient authorities,” he concludes, “are the sole guides to real truth in historic antiquities; conjectures and arguments are only ingenious lies:” which made him abandon the former, and have recourse only to the latter (I. 106).",
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          "ref": "1876 August 4, “Our Colfax Letter”, in Weekly Oregon Statesman, volume 26, number 38, Salem, Or., page 4, column 2",
          "text": "The discovery consists of seven large horns and other bones of extinct animals, known by antiquitists as the behemoth.",
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          "ref": "1911 November, “The Convention Banquet”, in Industrial Canada, volume XII, number 4, Toronto, Ont.: The Canadian Manufacturers’ Association, section “Dr. Robertson”, page 467i, column 1",
          "text": "Every man needs a hero, not merely among the antiquitists, but among the personal friends, and to-night you have Sir William Whyte here.",
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          "ref": "1912, The Narrow Escape of Lady Hardwell, page 97",
          "text": "We’ll not quarrel, your champion antiquitist and me. I only want to buy a chair for my sister to complete her set, and I hear that Dymoke is the best antique chair man in the county – yes, Dymoke was the name.[…]",
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          "ref": "2010, “Perspectives on Kokuji, the National Script”, in Maki Harano Hubbard, transl., The Ideology of Kokugo: Nationalizing Language in Modern Japan, Honolulu, Haw.: University of Hawaiʻi Press, translation of original by Lee Yeounsuk, part I (Kokugo Issues in Early Meiji), section 5 (Kokuji Problems in the Fourth Decade of Meiji), page 34",
          "text": "Note here that Inoue was not an antiquitist, and his proposal was based on his “spirit of reform.” His kokutai was not the retrospective one used by the classicists of early Meiji, but the ideology defined by, and further supportive of, the system of the modern nation-state.",
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