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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Archaism \Ar"cha*ism\, n. [Gr. 'archai:smo`s, fr 'archai^os
ancient, fr 'archh` beginning: cf F. archa["i]sme. See
{Arch}, a.]
1. An ancient, antiquated, or old-fashioned, word
expression, or idiom; a word or form of speech no longer
in common use
2. Antiquity of style or use obsoleteness.
A select vocabulary corresponding (in point of
archaism and remoteness from ordinary use) to our
Scriptural vocabulary. --De Quincey.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
archaism
n : the use of an archaic expression [syn: {archaicism}]
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