Both Uses of
anachronism
in
The Time Machine
- Our ancestors had no great tolerance for anachronisms.
Chpt 1 *anachronisms = things out of place for their time
- So I don't think any of us said very much about time travelling in the interval between that Thursday and the next, though its odd potentialities ran, no doubt, in most of our minds: its plausibility, that is, its practical incredibleness, the curious possibilities of anachronism and of utter confusion it suggested.†
Chpt 2anachronism = something out of place for it's time
Definition:
something out of place for it's time - typically something that belongs in the past