[ad_1] noun
- something archaic, as a word or expression.
- the use of what is archaic, as in literature or art: The archaism of the novelist’s style provided a sense of the period.
- the survival or presence of something from the past: The art of letter writing is becoming an archaism.
noun
- the adoption or imitation of something archaic, such as a word or an artistic or literary style
- an archaic word, expression, style, etc
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.