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archaisms
noun
(ar-cha-ism)
the use of an archaic expression
Synonyms:
archaicism
,
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archaisms
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archaicism
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etymologies
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nabokovian
,
circumlocutions
,
historicism
,
coinages
,
fustiness
,
loanwords
,
priggishness
,
lexis
,
tautologies
,
academicism
,
journalese
,
infelicities
,
neologisms
,
deracination
,
commonplaces
,
dandyism
,
apercus
,
orotund
,
unworldliness
,
ritualism
,
scholasticism
,
daintiness
,
crudities
,
unintelligibility
,
pompousness
,
rhapsodies
,
diphthongs
,
grandiloquence
,
epigrams
,
doubleness
,
dilettantism
,
poeticism
,
exegeses
,
prolixity
,
attitudinizing
,
gallimaufry
,
metafiction
,
stylisation
,
plainness
,
garrulousness
,
catullus
,
didacticism
,
literalism
,
wordiness
,
split infinitive
,
genitive
,
lexicography
,
elide
,
pedantry
,
gimcrack
,
wishfulness
,
maupassant
,
orientalism
,
bohemianism
,
poesy
,
locution
,
belles lettres
,
idioms
,
idiosyncrasy
,
inelegance
,
solecism
,
acerbity
,
courtliness
,
mozartian
,
nominalism
,
onanism
,
prosody
,
metaphysic
,
hybridity
,
affectations
,
rusticity
,
quiddity
,
orthography
,
everydayness
,
scansion
,
superciliousness
,
pentameter
,
cantankerousness
,
allusiveness
,
barbarisms
,
cognates
,
flummery
,
pithiness
,
cavafy
,
grubbiness
,
clownishness
,
prose
,
singspiel
,
diminutives
,
foreignness
,
indirectness
,
inoffensiveness
,
imposture
,
popery
,
explications
,
cogitations
,
folk etymology
,
ephemerality
,
archaisms
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