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Meanings of archaism in English

Russian
архаизм
Portuguese
arcaísmo
Spanish
arcaísmo
Catalan
arcaisme

Outdated language rarely used.

Related terms
архаизм
Catalan
arcaisme

The use of an archaic expression.

arcaisme
Usage of archaism in English
1
Who exhumed you, patron saint of archaism, from the charnel-house of centuries?
Beulah
2
The very faint archaism of the style may have alienated them.
Essays in Little
3
Had I come upon a whole buried world of unholy archaism?
The Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft
4
But all these things by themselves might be merely archaism.
Tremendous Trifles
5
Thirteen years of study created nothing but a cloying sense of being smothered by archaism.
The Irish Times
6
What interested me was the uniform air of archaism as displayed in every visible detail.
The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft
7
Yet the sentences are only lightly touched by archaism.
The Guardian
8
The Aeginetan marbles show the traces of dying archaism.
Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable
9
This charm (let me add) by no means consists in mere primitiveness or mere archaism.
From a Cornish Window / A New Edition
10
And so he goes out in quest of purity and truth, and brings home an elaborate archaism.
Emerson and Other Essays
11
This is an archaism which would be laughable if it were not so dangerous in its effects.
The Man-Made World; Or, Our Androcentric Culture
12
Everywhere we see this fashion of archaism.
History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria in the ...
13
It's acquiring archaism by the second.
Wired
14
Knots on, a tree; an archaism.
Dryden's Palamon and Arcite
15
Laund is, of course, an archaism.
Dryden's Palamon and Arcite
16
The archaism of their silhouettes strikes us from the first, as much as their isolation in such a place.
Egypt (La Mort de Philae)