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Definition of archaism:
Synonyms:
archaicism.
Usage examples:
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And so he goes out in quest of purity and truth, and brings home an elaborate archaism.
- "Emerson and Other Essays", John Jay Chapman. -
In order to arrive at their effects, they shrink from no sacrifice, from no excess; slang, neologism, forced construction, archaism, barbarous epithet, nothing comes amiss to them, so long as it tends to render a sensation.
- "Figures of Several Centuries", Arthur Symons. -
Unfriend, quoted above, is a quite unnecessary archaism, and so is such a phrase as With this Borrow could not away, in the sense of 'this Borrow could not endure.
- "Reviews", Oscar Wilde.