archaism
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This archaism, from the era of horse-drawn carriages, gives you some idea of how long rear windows have been around.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 25, 2026
That phrase, which may strike some young American ears as an archaism if not an oxymoron, is worth unpacking, and Amis provides readers with a pocket account of the historical preconditions of his extravagant fame.
From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2018
It very much looks as though the lexicographer used high language and a fancy archaism to “exonerate” dismay, thereby achieving the comfortable sense of having bogged bog.
From The Guardian • Mar. 25, 2016
You can laugh at the archaism of the dialogue, if you wish, though I happen to like its sturdy lyricism.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 29, 2016
She was taken halfway up the Hudson in an excursion steamer fitted out in the archaism of the mad Twenties.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
Vocabulary lists containing archaism
Rhetoric
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Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Advanced
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Reading: Literature - Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - High School
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