archaism

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noun

the use of an archaic expression
• Syn:
archaicism
• Derivationally related forms:
archaistic (for: archaicism), archaistic, archaize, archaise
• Members of this Usage Domain:
adust, dark-skinned, dusky, swart, swarthy,
thrown, thrown and twisted, hotheaded, impulsive, impetuous, madcap,
tearaway, brainish, dighted, commodious, convenient, proportionable,
verbal, innocent, dowerless, amort, sublime, uplifted,
leal, acold, frore, corroborant, base, baseborn,
curtal, small, puissant, backward, half-witted, slow-witted,
feebleminded, heartless, scrivened, careful, strait, horary,
meretricious, apopemptic, scriptural, empiric, empirical, hence,
away, off, forth, privily, brotherly, mellowly,
mellow, perchance, by chance, verily, ambages, palfrey,
gildhall, hold, hornpipe, pibgorn, stockhorn, complexion,
sooth, muchness, instancy, fardel, alienism, the halt,
Negroid, Negro, blackamoor, Negress, colored person, colored,
mulatto, quadroon, octoroon, Oriental, oriental person, caitiff,
simple, meed, bosom, air, fire, earth,
quintessence, ether, water, menstruum, screw, compass,
bide, abide, stay
• Members of this Topic:
control
• Hypernyms:
formulation, expression