Definition of "archaisms" []

• Plural form of archaism. (noun)

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• "I also took out a whole metric fuckload of ellipses, successfully defended my archaisms from the CEM, and falled in love with the characters all over again."
• "Morrow's prose, cobwebbed with archaisms, is no help."
• "Society.) {2} It may be suggested that what are called the archaisms of Spenser's style may be _in part_ due to the author's long residence in the country with one of the older forms of the language spoken all round him and spoken by him, in fact his vernacular."