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archaic

adjective as in very old

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They don’t want the government involved in their relationship, or they believe the institution of marriage is archaic.

From Salon

This moment of reckoning with LGBTQ+ veterans is an opportunity for the Pentagon to rethink its archaic military discharge system.

Congress enacted this archaic law in 1873 as part of a fit of puritanical panic against women’s rights.

From Slate

Truth has returned to its pre-enlightenment meaning; or, as Merriam-Webster puts it, its archaic meaning: “Fidelity, constancy.”

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I can only be envious of the early fish and archaic crabs that might have seen Earth’s temporary band of spinning debris.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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