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Definition of Archaists
1. archaist [n] - See also: archaist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Archaists
Literary usage of Archaists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Virgil and His Meaning to the World of To-day by John William Mackail (1922)
"He had his detractors,35 among the small fry of contemporary poetasters, and
among the purists or archaists who held obstinately by the older Latin ..."
2. The Journal of English and Germanic Philology by Ill.) University of Illinois (Urbana (1919)
"20 Listed in NED as an "improper use by archaists of the 16th and 17th centuries."
DD gives it as n. Yorks. Spenser seems, then, to have taken it almost ..."
3. The Classical World by Classical Association of the Atlantic States (1916)
"... brought with it radical and far reaching changes in Roman standards of taste
and literary art. We are now in the period of the archaists and the ..."
4. Hermathena by Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland) (1905)
"innovation for the archaists of the second century! It is easy to understand how
the corruption in the MSS. came about. Sine was accidentally written as ..."
5. The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt, Samuel George Chetwynd Middlemore (1904)
"When style and language had once become the property of a living society, all
the efforts of purists and archaists failed to secure their end. ..."
6. Islandica by Cornell University Libraries (1919)
"He scorned the method of always looking backwards and resorting to archaisms,
not realizing perhaps that the archaists, ridiculous as they often are, ..."
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