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Meaning of "archaism"

archaism (noun): A word, phrase, or style of language that is considered old-fashioned or outdated; sometimes used for stylistic or historical purposes in English
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  • The adoption or imitation of archaic words or style.
  • An archaic word, style, etc.

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A similar archaism prevailed in religion and customs.
But tradition does not necessarily mean archaism.
Archaism is use of outdated words.
It just seems like a quaint archaism.
Two major risks are falling into archaism or seeking modernity at all costs.
His somewhat contrived style is characterized by its archaism.
Only the abstraction of this archaism can hold its own against the commercial abstraction.
We must snap out of this archaism.
This architectural archaism is exactly what makes all the interest of Mantaille.
I write it as a consultant or writing well archaism.
There was an obvious trend of archaism in Iconoclastic policy.
Any lexical divergence within any of the two groups can be explained as an archaism.
The archaism of Irish tradition.
Allegiance and archaism.
Technical archaism has helped nobody to build a brighter future ».

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And words to testify to this world suspended between archaism and modernity.
Modernity and archaism function as a constantly torn-away couple that never splits.
The modernization that Portugal seeks is already an archaism elsewhere.
This archaism had its roots in Ingres 's taste for Greek vases.
JARZEMBOWKSI countries in which this deplorable penal archaism still lingers on.
This, Linera argues, is an archaism that goes back to Hobbes and Montesquieu.
Nevertheless, the term phorminx continued to be used as an archaism in poetry.
Reemergence of political archaism in Europe, Towards a French test.
In later times, this custom became seen as a mark of archaism.
The restructuring plan is an archaism that must be removed!
In formal registers being used as a singular second-person pronoun, for archaism.
Quien as a plural form survives as an archaism that is now considered non-standard.
Out-skirting still when he resorts to the machine, true once again to a form of archaism.
Examples of Archaism.
The poems were compared to Milton 's and Trediakovsky 's on account of their detached, calculated archaism.
Entering the house, we can feel the archaism and nostalgia in its decoration.
For others, the very idea of God has become an archaism.
Although the term " Turanian " quickly became an archaism ( unlike " Aryan " ), it did not disappear completely.
The Dialect of Fardella, isolation and archaism.
Two bits" is an archaism in the United States for 25 cents; a quarter.
Definition of Archaism.
It is cognate with the Dutch archaism Diets, meaning " Dutch ", and the German self-designation Deutsch.
Later, he offers another criticism by approaching the notion of archaism in ethnology.
Conversely, in Spain, vos is now considered a highly exalted archaism virtually confined to liturgy.
The use of psalm tones was already considered an archaism in Bach 's time.
Modernity is backward-looking, whereas archaism is futurist.
His wide-ranging, eclectic style blended archaism and modernity.

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