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adv. - Relating to a much earlier, often more primitive, period.

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Usage examples (36)
  • Gilded Tongue' will have you speaking archaically
  • Adjective : an archaic manner; an archaic notion. ,thou; wast; methinks; forsooth. ,the archaic period of psychoanalytic research. ,an archaic form...
  • Too bad I don't know Freedomish (archaically known as "French").
  • They spoke an archaically marginal and not entirely correct Swedish.
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