Usage of "archaicism"

Catalan

The use of an archaic expression.

Synonyms

Examples for "archaism"

Examples for "archaism"

Who exhumed you, patron saint of archaism, from the charnel-house of centuries? 
 Beulah 

The very faint archaism of the style may have alienated them. 
 Essays in Little 

Had I come upon a whole buried world of unholy archaism? 
 The Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft 

But all these things by themselves might be merely archaism. 
 Tremendous Trifles 

Thirteen years of study created nothing but a cloying sense of being smothered by archaism. 
 The Irish Times 

Usage of archaicism in English

He saw that it must be a survival, or perhaps a deliberate archaicism. 
 The Dawn of All 

Deliberately misapplied archaicism is sometimes regarded as humorous by Earthmen, magnificence. 
 Victory 

Her literary style beguiled me into the responsive archaicism of the second person singular. 
 Without Prejudice 

Frequent collocations

Translations for archaicism

Catalan

Archaicism through the time

Meanings of archaicism in English