archaism

Examples

• All

• Yet in spite of the effect of the color here, the figural style is really no different from that of the abbots; the color of the opening scenes merely masks some of the linear archaisms.

  Academic text (1999)

• Is the model of sacrifice, as some contemporary thinkers have claimed, a dangerous archaism that should be purged from our cultural imaginary?

  Academic text (2001)

• So, you know, archaism, and not necessarily anything wrong with that, right?

  Gregory B. Sadler - That Philosophy Guy

• A few words about archaism versus modernism.

  MIT OpenCourseWare

• I have here preserved the "archaism" of the narrative, in which "did be" is a frequent, jarring construction.

  Academic text (2016)

• "Emperor Sarabian had obviously taken advantage of the brief interruption to frame his thoughts in a somewhat studied archaism.

  Fiction book (1993)

• While the composition of certain eddic poems such as Atlakviða and Hamðismál may well pre-date the earliest surviving accounts of the German tradition, the relative archaism of the traditions themselves is far harder to judge.

  Academic text (2018)

• In his poetry, he often employed archaism to evoke a sense of nostalgia.

• The novel's use of archaism made its historical setting feel more authentic.

• Although rarely used today, the archaism 'thou' can be found in classic literature.

Synonyms

A

anachronism

vsarchaism

14 9.8

A person or thing from a different time that seems old-fashioned

is about old words or styles present in use not general time mismatch

A

archaicism

vsarchaism

• Literature

9.9

The use of old words or expressions on purpose in writing and speech

is the general presence of old-fashioned words rather than deliberate choice

How Archaic

a thing of the past

• Informal

29 3.8

archaism

• Literature

1 9.9

old-fashioned

149 4.7

vintage

5 5.3

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology