archaicism

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.

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.

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

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

The heroine's small brother, with playful archaicism called "a springald," puts on her skirts and things and passes himself off for his sister or anybody else he pleases.