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Definition of Archaisms
1. archaism [n] - See also: archaism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Archaisms
Literary usage of Archaisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Homer: An Introduction to the Iliad and the Odyssey by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1887)
"These false archaisms in //. 10. confirm the relative lateness of the book, ...
3 False archaisms have a large place in Prof. Paley's theory,—that 'our ..."
2. Companion to the Revised Version of the New Testament, Explaining the by Alexander Roberts (1881)
"On the contrary, " innocent archaisms"—to use an expression which was ... As has
been well remarked, " These (archaisms), shedding round the sacred volume ..."
3. The Practical Elements of Rhetoric: With Illustrative Examples by John Franklin Genung (1896)
"Poetic archaisms and Non-Colloquialisms.—The next step that poetry takes, in its
endeavor ... A very natural poetic impulse is the employment of archaisms. ..."
4. Teuffels̓ History of Roman Literature by Wilhelm Sigismund Teuffel (1891)
"But these archaisms are not genuinely ... of S. The age of Fronto was greatly
attracted by a writer so piquant and so highly flavoured with archaisms. ..."
5. Hebraisms in the Authorized Version of the Bible by William Rosenau (1902)
"CHAPTER V DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HEBRAISMS AND ENGLISH archaisms Before discussing
the Hebraisms of the AV and giving a list of them as appearing in the text of ..."
6. The Literature of the French Renaissance by Arthur Augustus Tilley (1904)
"His chief object being to convince, he gradually freed himself from archaisms
and Latinisms, which, however much they might contribute to the ..."
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