archaicism
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For all its stark lines and modern appurtenances, its whirr of data in mid-process, it too is an archaicism, two centuries behind the times.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2018
His version is most readable: his English, with a sub-flavour of the Mabinogionic archaicism, is admirable; and his style gives life and light to the nine volumes whose matter is frequently heavy enough.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
But how far it is possible to recur to such archaicism, or to make up for it by any voluntary abandonment of power, I cannot as yet venture in any wise to determine.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by John Ruskin
Deliberately misapplied archaicism is sometimes regarded as humorous by Earthmen, magnificence.
From Victory by Lester Del Rey
He saw that it must be a survival, or perhaps a deliberate archaicism.
From Dawn of All by Robert Hugh Benson
