Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Ancient style or quality; archaism.
- noun In biology, abnormal or exceptional resemblance to ancestors; atavism; reversion.
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- noun the use of an archaic expression
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Examples
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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.
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Mavors is, as far as I know, only attested in later classical poetry and so does not necessarily suggest an archaicism.
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This is why many IEists bow to common sense and recognize that the r-mediopassive is the true archaicism here, hence 1ps mediopassive *-h₂ór.
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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This is why many IEists bow to common sense and recognize that the r-mediopassive is the true archaicism here, hence 1ps mediopassive *-h₂ór.
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Nowadays, "stevedore" is essentially an archaicism; the men in the longshoremens union run those giant cranes and are paid very well.
Archive 2007-11-01 James Killus 2007
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It's always tempting to assume that everything in an older branch such as Anatolian is an archaicism but naturally that can't logically be the case.
Thoughts on the early Indo-European subjunctive 1ps ending 2007
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This, I feel, is in itself an indication that we're dealing with an archaicism.
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Nowadays, "stevedore" is essentially an archaicism; the men in the longshoremens union run those giant cranes and are paid very well.
Detcord James Killus 2007
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"Thinking full well" makes no sense to me, not even as an archaicism.
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Wolzek pronounced the archaicism with studied care.
This Crowded Earth Robert Bloch 1955
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