How To Use archaism In A Sentence
- I have always seen the position of the traditional mayor as an amusing archaism.
- We're already losing the word, and I doubt my children will use it any more than I use archaisms from Postmodern English.
- The Dryden translation is a little harder to get into with its deliberate archaisms and anastrophes, but once you do it's very rhythmic and compelling.
- He was not happy with the strange inflections of the melodies, with their flattened 7ths and sharpened 6ths, and he was even more perplexed by the words: he had little English to begin with and the rustic archaisms only added to the problem.
- Legal language seems to rest on archaisms like ‘hereinafter.’
- There is more to be found in the rhapsody's orality, in archaisms and the atavistic language, in orality and folklore, in clerical-juggleresque rhetoric.
- His translation of ‘Espergesia’ as ‘Epexegesis’ captures the power of this impossible word which some interpreters have considered to be a neologism and others an elusive archaism.
- In addition, he anticipated the modern poets in objurgating the custom of garnishing poems with archaisms.
- The author, like many older scholars, seems incapable of using simple constructions such as ‘seventy years’, preferring archaisms such as ‘three score and ten’ that make the writing unnecessarily heavy.
- This form, "situate," may be Pater's archaism for situated, or it may simply be a typographic error in the original published edition. Plato and Platonism
