archaisms

I also took out a whole metric fuckload of ellipses, successfully defended my archaisms from the CEM, and falled in love with the characters all over again.

i am friend to the undertow i take you in i don't let go matociquala 2007

Morrow's prose, cobwebbed with archaisms, is no help.

The Last Witchfinder: Summary and book reviews of The Last Witchfinder by James Morrow. 2006

Society.) {2} It may be suggested that what are called the archaisms of Spenser's style may be _in part_ due to the author's long residence in the country with one of the older forms of the language spoken all round him and spoken by him, in fact his vernacular.

A Biography of Edmund Spenser John W. Hales 1875

And a number of the "archaisms" are explained in the Merriam-Webster Third New International

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 4 1984

Decemberist in chief Colin Meloy has sung plenty about war, but his stomach-turning fondness for lyrical archaisms and songs about medieval romance always gave the impression that he was living in the wrong century - or in the deluded fog of his own genius.

Indie bands of the future: Don't touch the Ambien Chris Richards 2011

Decemberist in chief Colin Meloy has sung plenty about war, but his stomach-turning fondness for lyrical archaisms and songs about medieval romance always gave the impression that he was living in the wrong century - or in the deluded fog of his own genius.

Album reviews: The Decemberists -- "The King Is Dead," Iron & Wine -- "Kiss Each Other Clean," Tennis -- "Cape Dory" Chris Richards 2011

Words such as sin, salvation, sanctification, grace, justification, and redemption are archaisms completely out-of-touch with modern-day America.

Christian Education and the Struggle With Biblical Illiteracy « Illiteracy Articles « Articles « Literacy News 2009

We are thus brought up to speed with the super knowledge base noticing only after that our acclimatization sickness is not thoroughly gone, but in time these comments fade into disuse as of archaisms in prose, mind and body.

A Mess 2010

Fiercely admired for its mysterious, expansive imagery, its bravery, radicalism and strangeness, yet equally disliked for what can be seen as its grammatical confusions, its archaisms and deliberate obfuscations, Nicki Jackowska's poetry has always aimed at a visionary quality and this book is no exception.

Behold by Nicki Jackowska – review Charles Bainbridge 2010

As Amos Elon wrote in 1971, the 1967 war “fused in some hearts the intransigence of aroused nationalism with the archaisms of an ancient religious faith….”

Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010