archaism

Example Sentences

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For his part Mr. Hopkins has employed the conscious archaism of a folk art style to furnish the quotidian world of a culture mostly erased by the Civil War.

From New York Times • Jan. 16, 2020

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

Its hallmark is archaism in theology and ethics, and its reach covers most of the global community of faith.

From Washington Post • Aug. 21, 2015

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