His movements, his clothes, everything about him, seemed slightly out of place in this assembly. He spoiled the pattern; like Alvin, he was an anachronism.
A chronological mistake; the erroneous dating of an event, circumstance, or object
an artifact that belongs to another time a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
one by which an event is placed too early; falsification of chronological relation
You say that something is an anachronism when you think that it is out of date or old-fashioned. The President tended to regard the Church as an anachronism
{i} assigning of a person or event to the wrong time period; something that is obsolete or out of date
A misplacing or error in the order of time; an error in chronology by which events are misplaced in regard to each other, esp
An anachronism is something in a book, play, or film that is wrong because it did not exist at the time the book, play, or film is set. The last paragraph contains an anachronism. The Holy Office no longer existed at that time