55 examples of archaism in sentences

[study of the past] paleontology, paleography, paleology^; paleozoology; palaetiology^, archaeology; paleogeography; paleoecology; paleobotany; paleoclimatoogy; archaism, antiquarianism, medievalism, Pre-Raphaelitism; paleography.

archaism &c (the past) 122; thing of the past, relic of the past; megatherium^; Sanskrit. tradition, prescription, custom, immemorial usage, common law.

Neologism N. neology, neologism; newfangled expression, nonce expression; back-formation; caconym^; barbarism. archaism, black letter, monkish Latin. corruption, missaying^, malapropism, antiphrasis^. pun, paranomasia^, play upon words; word play &c (wit) 842; double- entendre &c (ambiguity)

Talking in studious archaism seems to have been a fashionable practice in society and court circles.

The semblance of archaism disappears, and leaves a vision of pure beauty, delicate and spiritual.

Perhaps it was; but, if so, it is singular that this pronunciation is not found in any dialect of our language where almost every other archaism is caught skulking.

All that is peculiar to the Subjunctive, all that should constitute it a distinct mood, they represent as an archaism, an obsolete or antiquated mode of expression, while they willingly give to it every form of both the indicative and the potential, the two other moods which sometimes follow an if.

It is worthier to take rank with its kindred beest, and be called an archaism.

And, as to the former example here cited, some British critics, still preferring the archaism, have accused "The Americans" of "poor criticism," in that they "have changed which into who, as being more consonant to the rules of Grammar."

"But in Spenser's time the pronouncing the ed seems already to have been something of an archaism.

MIMESIS AND ARCHAISM.

What is an Archaism?

"But in Spenser's time the pronouncing of the ed [as a separate syllable,] seems already to have been something of an archaism.

Archaism, what Aristotle, division of the Greek letters what neoterics wiser than; how considers the compounding or non-compounding of terms Arithmetical numbers, relation of the terms in ARRANGEMENT of words, term defined Arrang.

Orthography, figures of, MIMESIS and ARCHAISM its substantive or pronominal character; (with one.)

The following construction may he considered an archaism, or a form of expression that is now obsolete: "You have bestowed a many of kindnesses upon me.

This author says, that "dropt" is the past tense of "drop;" (p. 118;) let him prove, for example, that droptest is not a clumsy innovation, and that droppedst is not a formal archaism, and then tell of the egregious error of adopting neither of these forms in common conversation.

Even in the so-called Elizabethan age, where a certain archaism of phrase survives, the appreciation of temporal and local colour may be helped by such an adherence.

The remark applies first and foremost, of course, to the Calender, and opens up the whole question of archaism and provincialism in literature.

For Spenser's archaism, in his pastoral work at least, is no unmeaning affectation as Jonson implies.

The syllabic value of the final e, already weakening in the London of Chaucer's later days, was more or less of an archaism even with his most immediate followers, none of whom use it with his unvarying correctness, and it soon became literally a dead letter.

The language betrays, as in the case of the author's eclogues, a pseudo-archaism, which points, particularly in such phrases as 'doe ycleape,' to a perhaps unfortunate study of Spenser.

There is also some prose in the comic part sustained by Autolicus and Conto and the aged clown Jarbus, as well as a certain amount of Spenserian archaism, and a good deal of dialect.

An extreme and tyrannical nativism, a tasteless archaism in dress, manner, and speech, an intolerant and aggressive democratic propaganda offended and bullied the more conservative.

But once a word falls out of colloquial speech its life is threatened; it may linger on in literature, but its radiance, at first perhaps brighter, will gradually diminish, and it must sooner or later fade away, or live only as a conscious archaism.

55 examples of  archaism  in sentences