We have implied in former sections, and shall here take it for granted, that occasional archaism is always a fault, conscious or unconscious. From LearnThat.org. [http://www.bartleby.com/116/304.html]
As for the archaism, that is well enough for those who like it. From Wordnik.com. [The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography] Reference
Müller's exaggerated emphasis on the archaism of the. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
However this may be, it is simply an archaism, not a vulgarism. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859] Reference
I think it might be a faux-archaism, but am not quite sure – yet. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » James Dobson to start new nonprofit and radio show, giving him ‘greater leeway to hold forth on politics.’] Reference
Paper versus pixels, that's yesterday's battle, an intriguing archaism for him. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: June 29, 2003 - July 5, 2003 Archives] Reference
The effort has been made to give a decided flavor of archaism to the translation. From Wordnik.com. [Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem] Reference
These quotations have no very unfamiliar sound, nor much flavour of archaism about them. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
The proper idiom "власти предержащие" is an archaism of Church-Slavonic origin. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: POT AUX ROSES.] Reference
SILBERMAN: There's a certain level of self-conscious archaism in your lyrics, and in your translations. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Silberman's Interview with Robert Hunter from Poetry Flash] Reference
It seems like a self-conscious archaism to me - I don't think it sounds right as modern idiomatic English. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: THINKING FULL WELL.] Reference
Now this is a genuine archaism in a correct sense: "think well of" with the adverb augmented by the archaic "full". From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: THINKING FULL WELL.] Reference
Sigurd and Gudrún is an exercise in conscious archaism not just in subject matter, and not just in poetic form and idiom. From Wordnik.com. [SF Tidbits for 7/7/09] Reference
"Steeped in effective 19th-century archaism, yet steely in sustaining the story, the prose is as poetic as it is violent.". From Wordnik.com. [Canaan's Tongue by John Wray: Book summary] Reference
(The archaism of the word, not to speak of the unmaternal character of most of the women themselves, does not recommend it.). From Wordnik.com. [The White Goddess!] Reference
If you use it with most other verbs, it's an archaism. "think full well" is an oxymoronic archaism, which causes more discomfort. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: THINKING FULL WELL.] Reference
Apuleius are its archaism and its extreme floridity. From Wordnik.com. [The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura] Reference
The archaism of the English would represent the archaism of the Greek. From Wordnik.com. [The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography] Reference
This charm (let me add) by no means consists in mere primitiveness or mere archaism. From Wordnik.com. [From a Cornish Window A New Edition] Reference
Nationalisation is no longer an archaism but an expedient, accepted even by Conservatives. From Wordnik.com. [Latest news from the public and voluntary sectors, including health, children, local government and social care, plus SocietyGuardian jobs | guardian.co.uk] Reference
This, now a Northern provincialism, is an archaism at least as old as the fourteenth century. From Wordnik.com. [It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot] Reference
This latter Morris tried to accomplish by increasing the archaism of his style by every means in his power. From Wordnik.com. [The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography] Reference
Their office is the stabilisation of archaic institutions, the measure of archaism varying from one to another. From Wordnik.com. [An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation] Reference
The termination, which suggests either wilful archaism or useless slang, adds nothing of sense or sound to the word. From Wordnik.com. [American Sketches 1908] Reference
I have a feeling that "St James's Square" is correct, but I think it is an archaism which no longer serves as an example. From Wordnik.com. [بالاترین] Reference
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