Outdated language rarely used.
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Examples for "archaic"
Examples for "archaic"
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Victims groups have slammed the move, saying name suppression laws are archaic.
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I examined him carefully; the archaic medical treatment had been surprisingly effective.
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Strangely enough, having magically learned archaic Portuguese last summer was really helping.
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Do you not see your children suffering under our archaic education policies?
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But I'm getting my message to you by a rather archaic method.
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Here are long quotations, and not an obsolete term or unfamiliar metre among them.
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They looked upon their clergy as preachers merely-thecure of souls was an obsolete term.
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The multitude of obsolete terms, however, in which it abounds, renders it now, as a whole, illegible.
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23 "Sweeting," an obsolete term for a sweet apple.-Ed.
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'Put on thy harness,' an obsolete term for armour, weapons, and habiliments of war; the spiritual warfare, 'put on the whole armour of God.
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Spinster is just an archaic term for 'career-minded'.
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Their locomotives (that seems like an archaic term) uses auxiliary power for idling times so that the diesel engine can be shut down.
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What will happen with the archaic terms of the past?
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Rather nicely drafted, although peppered with archaic terms.
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Most of these are just variants and currently archaic terms, but some appear to be actual errors.
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Spell-checkers have problems with proper names, foreign words, archaic usages, and dialects.
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This is particularly so in some old books where archaic usages, now obsolete, may look downright wrong to modern eyes.
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Who exhumed you, patron saint of archaism, from the charnel-house of centuries?
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The very faint archaism of the style may have alienated them.
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Had I come upon a whole buried world of unholy archaism?
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But all these things by themselves might be merely archaism.
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Thirteen years of study created nothing but a cloying sense of being smothered by archaism.
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What interested me was the uniform air of archaism as displayed in every visible detail.
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Yet the sentences are only lightly touched by archaism.
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The Aeginetan marbles show the traces of dying archaism.
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This charm (let me add) by no means consists in mere primitiveness or mere archaism.
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And so he goes out in quest of purity and truth, and brings home an elaborate archaism.
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This is an archaism which would be laughable if it were not so dangerous in its effects.
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Everywhere we see this fashion of archaism.
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It's acquiring archaism by the second.
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Knots on, a tree; an archaism.
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Laund is, of course, an archaism.
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The archaism of their silhouettes strikes us from the first, as much as their isolation in such a place.