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ar·cha·ism

(är′kē-ĭz′əm, -kā-)

1. An archaic word, phrase, idiom, or other expression.

2. An archaic style, quality, or usage.

[New Latin archaeismus, from Greek arkhaismos, from arkhaios, ancient; see archaic.]

ar′cha·ist n.

ar′cha·is′tic (-ĭs′tĭk) adj.

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archaism

(ˈɑːkɪˌɪzəm; -keɪ-)

1. the adoption or imitation of something archaic, such as a word or an artistic or literary style

2. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) an archaic word, expression, style, etc

[C17: from New Latin archaismus, from Greek arkhaïsmos, from arkhaizein to model one's style upon that of ancient writers; see archaic]

ˈarchaist n

ˌarchaˈistic adj

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ar•cha•ism

(ˈɑr kiˌɪz əm, -keɪ-)

n.

1. an archaic verbal usage.

2. the use of archaic style or language.

3. the survival or presence of something from the past.

[1635–45; < New Latin, Latin archaismus < Greek archaïsmós. See archaic, -ism]

ar′cha•ist, n.

ar`cha•is′tic, adj.

ar′cha•ize`, v.t., v.i. -ized, -iz•ing.

archaism

a taste for and imitation of earlier styles, a recurrent phenomenon since ancient times based on the premise that earlier works were somehow purer and simpler. Cf. primitivism.

archaism

[ˈɑːkeɪɪzəm] N → arcaísmo m

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archaism

n → veralteter Ausdruck, Archaismus m

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archaism

[ˈɑːkeɪɪz/əm] n → arcaismo

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The style in which it was written was that curious jewelled style, vivid and obscure at once, full of argot and of archaisms, of technical expressions and of elaborate paraphrases, that characterizes the work of some of the finest artists of the French school of Symbolistes.

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Some of the specific peculiarities of this style are taken over, with exaggeration, from German usage; some are Biblical or other archaisms; others spring mainly from Carlyle's own amazing mind.

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In her view, medieval Catholic baptism provides an excellent example of ritual archaism, in that, although used almost exclusively for infants, it was really for adults.

The Reformation of Ritual: An Interpretation of Early Modern Germany

A lucid discussion of the 'populist archaism' of F.

The Translator's Invisibility: A History of Translation

This archaism matters, because Galbraith's continuing adherence to the primitive macroeconomics of his youth leaves him unprepared to confront the real dilemmas facing modern liberalism.

The Good Society: The Humane Agenda

"For in addition to deriving from the purest Spanish classicism, they are very beautiful, imbuing the subject with a special flavor of literary archaism which its nature requires by reason of its antiquity, nobility, exclusivity, and historic influence on the peninsula."

The man who charmed eagles

The form gradually disappeared among the poets, too, only to reappear spasmodically in the work of later writers as a conscious archaism.

ballade

understands that Luke wrote history as a man of his time, influenced by the techniques of archaism, speech composition, scenic condensation, commentative summaries, etc., which were cultivated amongst the epigones of Herodotus and Thucydides (both amply represented in the ancient-author index).

The Acts of the Apostles

His later Rimskiye sonety ( Roman Sonnets ), written just before World War II, dispense with ornateness and archaism, achieving powerful effects in simple, direct lines.

Ivanov, Vyacheslav Ivanovich

Despite the authors' archaism of style and their tentative graps of anthropology and world history, Geurrero and Magon reveal a profound awareness of the need to examine and eliminate the personal and institutional underpinnings of sexism, if human liberation is to have meaning.