Let's look at this phenomenon anachronistically. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
I'd say you're reading the text anachronistically. From Wordnik.com. [The Inerrancy of Ecclesiastes 9:2-6] Reference
But this is, I suggest, to view it anachronistically. From Wordnik.com. [Hermaphrodite Sex Are Few And Unspectacular] Reference
LA anachronistically confuses this Ainmire with Ainmire mac. From Wordnik.com. [The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints] Reference
Humfrey was funny that way, doing things anachronistically. From Wordnik.com. [Centaur Aisle]
United States, is anachronistically described as a “liberal.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Packing the Court by James MacGregor Burns:] Reference
Finally, anachronistically, the movement reached the wedding altar. From Wordnik.com. [The Loving Generation] Reference
(We might think, anachronistically, of someone about to undergo surgery.). From Wordnik.com. [Plato's Ethics and Politics in The Republic] Reference
And yet we still, anachronistically, expect humans to be running our phone system. From Wordnik.com. [The Hacker Crackdown]
If you don't, then don't anachronistically depict American Evangelicals in Medieval Italy. From Wordnik.com. [April Christian Science Fiction/Fantasy Blog Tour: The Begotten] Reference
Their program was, to put it somewhat anachronistically, to promote epistemic empowerment. From Wordnik.com. [Vienna Circle] Reference
Ironically, Booton resolves his confusion, anachronistically nevertheless, in a prior post. From Wordnik.com. [Outsourcing, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
To use a word that Malkovich's psycho is anachronistically fond of, this thriller has panache. From Wordnik.com. [Go Ahead, Take My Prez] Reference
Derrida might well have ghost-written this passage, or even, less anachronistically, Saussure. From Wordnik.com. [Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian] Reference
(Though “back to air” is a TV phrase now as anachronistically quaint as “switching the dial.”). From Wordnik.com. [November 2005] Reference
If Reeves and Mamlin weren't lesbians, their nuclear family would seem almost anachronistically average. From Wordnik.com. [October 2004] Reference
Kipling has shamelessly and anachronistically, as always, recreated the Roman Empire in the image of the British. From Wordnik.com. [Rudyard Kipling Sermon] Reference
Property law is generally taught, somewhat anachronistically, by teaching the mechanisms transferring it at death. From Wordnik.com. [May 2009] Reference
Champagne called -- well, anachronistically known as St. Voltaire's. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference
Politicians, perhaps anachronistically, still look to the universities for ideas. From Wordnik.com. [New Statesman] Reference
This is anachronistically put in terms of the much later literature on neoclassical growth. From Wordnik.com. [Mises Institute Daily Articles (Full-text version)] Reference
Most thinkers of his time were inclined to judge the past career of humanity anachronistically. From Wordnik.com. [The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth] Reference
The image is anachronistically redolent of the Nazis ordering inmates to extract gold teeth from the gassed. From Wordnik.com. [VQR] Reference
The subtitles are often anachronistically altered with humorous English subtitles surrounding current events. From Wordnik.com. [Rhizome Inclusive: News, Blog, and Digest] Reference
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