Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An antiquary; an archæologist.
- noun One who makes use of archaisms in art or in literary expression.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Am antiquary.
- noun One who uses archaisms.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who studies
archaic things; anantiquary - noun A person who uses
archaisms inlanguage
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- noun a person who archaizes
- noun an expert or collector of antiquities
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Examples
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Archaism is, no doubt, very seductive to the archaist.
Archaism. 1908
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The judicious archaist, as we have said, will abstain from palpable modernisms, especially from modern slang.
Archaism. 1908
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Tannahill's poems, and those later than him, except where pedantically archaist, like many of Motherwell's, are an improvement on Burns: namely, in the more easy and complete interfusion of the two dialects, the Norse Scotch and the Romanesque English, which
Literary and General Lectures and Essays Charles Kingsley 1847
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