archaicism

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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.

From Salon • Jul. 15, 2018

Her literary style beguiled me into the responsive archaicism of the second person singular.

From Without Prejudice by Zangwill, Israel

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.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by Ruskin, John

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.

From Ponkapog Papers by Aldrich, Thomas Bailey

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

From Dawn of All by Benson, Robert Hugh