Thesaurus: archaism
An ancient, antiquated, or old-fashioned, word, expression, or idiom; a word or form of speech no longer in common use.
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Definitions
- a. An word/ancient">ancient, word/antiquated">antiquated, or old-fashioned, word, expression, or idiom; a word or form of speech no longer in common use.
- a. Antiquity of style or use; obsoleteness.
- n. the use of an archaic expression
- 1. An word/ancient">ancient, word/antiquated">antiquated, or old-fashioned, word, expression, or idiom; a word or form of speech no longer in common use. 2. Antiquity of style or use; obsoleteness. A select vocabulary corresponding (in point of archaism and remoteness from ordinary use) to our Scriptural vocabulary. De Quincey.
- n:100 n. the use of an archaic expression