Definition of Archaizer

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Archaizer

archaicism
archaics
archaio-
archaiopteryx
archaise
archaised
archaises
archaising
archaism
archaisms
archaist
archaistic
archaists
archaize
archaized
archaizer (current term)
archaizers
archaizes
archaizing
archangel
archangelic
archangelical
archangels
archbishop
archbishophood
archbishophoods
archbishopric
archbishoprick
archbishopricks
archbishoprics

Literary usage of Archaizer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"But it may be remembered that Varro was himself something of an archaizer, and abo that the grammarians' quotations may bring this aspect too much into ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"But it may be remembered that Varro was himself something of an archaizer, and also that the grammarians' quotations may bring this aspect of his language ..."

3. Hellas and Hesperia: Or, The Vitality of Greek Studies in America ; Three by Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve (1909)
"... language—and his heart is touched when the patriotic archaizer apostrophizes the ancient speech in the language of the disciple: To whom shall we go? ..."

4. Seneca the Philosopher, and His Modern Message by Richard Mott Gummere (1922)
"... but an archaizer borrowing from the Republican Sallust and the earlier gallery of worthies like Cato, whose clauses he supposed to be sounder, ..."

5. Athenian Tragedy: A Study in Popular Art by Thomas Dwight Goodell (1920)
"Putting these metrical facts with some others we may think of Euripides as to some extent a conscious archaizer in certain externals, while in other ..."

6. The New Republic Book: Selections from the First-hundred Issues (1916)
"The archaizer plays with things that used to be serious, and so he expresses, instead of the early Greek reverence for desire, a certain detached amusement ..."

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