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something archaic, as a word or expression.
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the use of what is archaic, as in literature or art: The archaism of the novelist's style provided a sense of the period.
3.
the survival or presence of something from the past: The art of letter writing is becoming an archaism.
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archaism
1640s, "retention of what is old and obsolete," from Gk. arkhaismos, from arkhaizein "to copy the ancients" (in language, etc.); see archaic. Meaning "an archaic word or expression" is from c.1748.
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