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

He saw that it must be a survival, or perhaps a deliberate archaicism.

From Dawn of All by Benson, Robert Hugh

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 Ruskin, John

Deliberately misapplied archaicism is sometimes regarded as humorous by Earthmen, magnificence.

From Victory by Del Rey, Lester

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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir