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2 definitions found 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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