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Dated term for 22 is retained in America
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archaism
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The adoption or imitation of archaic words or style. 2 An archaic word, style, etc.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the use of an archaic expression [syn: archaicism ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In language , an archaism (from the , archaïkós , 'old-fashioned, antiquated', ultimately , archaîos , 'from the beginning, ancient') is the use of a form of speech or writing that is no longer current or that is current only within a few special contexts. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Archaism \Ar"cha*ism\, n. [Gr. 'archai:smo`s, fr. 'archai^os ancient, fr. 'archh` beginning: cf. F. archa["i]sme. See Arch , a.] An ancient, antiquated, or old-fashioned, word, expression, or idiom; a word or form of speech no longer in common ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, "retention of what is old and obsolete," from Modern Latin archaismus , from Greek arkhaismos , from arkhaizein "to copy the ancients" (in language, etc.); see archaic . Meaning "an archaic word or expression" is from c.1748.
Usage examples of archaism.
The pronunciation was barbarously alien, whilst the idiom seemed to include both scraps of curious archaism and expressions of a wholly incomprehensible cast.
What interested me was the uniform air of archaism as displayed in every visible detail.
It is not possible that an artist working in the years 1580-1585 should present to us traces of the archaism which even the most advanced sculptors of half a century earlier had not wholly lost.
As a rule, this artificiality is accepted as Irishism, or Yeats is even credited with simplicity because he uses short words, but in fact one seldom comes on six consecutive lines of his verse in which there is not an archaism or an affected turn of speech.
I have encouraged experimentation with the thought and methods of the past, a learned archaism which might recapture lost intentions and lost techniques.
Now this simple attitude entails a number of dangerous consequences: first, an inclination to seek out some cheap form of archaism or some imaginary past forms of happiness that people did not, in fact, have at all.
I don want to remove the archaisms, because the play, as written, has its glorious music and any change will diminish it.
The notices were all in plain block lettering with standard spelling, as laid down by the director -- true Anglo-Saxon was obviously useless for the purpose, and fake archaisms were prohibited.
We esteemed a lot of our own archaisms, including a freedom that Earth would probably have considered anarchical, but were we doing enough to preserve them?
They had come to like archaism, had made it a subculture as genuine as most.
I don want to remove the archaisms, because the play, as written, has its glorious music and any change will diminish it.
She was taken halfway up the Hudson in an excursion steamer fitted out in the archaism of the mad Twenties.