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

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

From Dawn of All by Benson, Robert Hugh

His version is most readable: his 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.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

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