Definition of archaism in English:

archaism

noun ˈɑːkeɪɪz(ə)m

1A thing that is very old or old-fashioned, especially an archaic word or style of language or art.
conscious archaisms inspired by French harpsichord music
Example sentencesExamples
- I have always seen the position of the traditional mayor as an amusing archaism.
- For it, he drew on Renaissance technical terms, derivations, compounds, archaisms, polysemy, etymological meanings, and idioms.
- It also affected Russian poets, for example Mayakovsky, in their choice of peasant themes or use of deliberate archaisms, incorrect spellings, and other deviations from standard usage.
- The advantages of modern dress are many, but contemporary dress in English-speaking performances comes at the price of a conflict between the archaism of the language and the modernity of the clothes.
- In diction that juxtaposes archaisms with a lyricism that defies easy explication, McCarthy offers not a simple subject position but a widening pool of imagistic encounter.
- Dafoe, Keitel, and most of the other actors, have distinctly American accents, and the script itself (by Paul Schrader) avoids archaisms in favor of an informal, almost modern sound.
- His translation of ‘Espergesia’ as ‘Epexegesis’ captures the power of this impossible word which some interpreters have considered to be a neologism and others an elusive archaism.
- If this optimism may seem unwarranted, at its best this type of research is sensitive to innovations and archaisms in the look and function of individual works, as well as to the social roles of their makers.
- Berlioz, an opera composer denied access to the Opéra for years, used deliberate archaisms in L' Enfance du Christ, notable for its beautiful but un-Handelian choruses.
- The word ‘apparency’ draws attention to itself as a Latinate archaism, witty and precise.
- His correspondence is in an affected ‘Roman style’ with stilted and archaized diction; his narrative letters, even reported speech, are full of archaisms like ‘thee,’ ‘varlet,’ and ‘durst.’
- Anno Domini’ is at least honest about its cultural specificity, and its being an archaism can only make it more arbitrary, which is all to the good.
- We're already losing the word, and I doubt my children will use it any more than I use archaisms from Postmodern English.
- In addition, he anticipated the modern poets in objurgating the custom of garnishing poems with archaisms.
- The style is very literary and carefully wrought, filled with archaisms and with echoes of Lamb's master Sterne.
- Legal language seems to rest on archaisms like ‘hereinafter.’
- The author, like many older scholars, seems incapable of using simple constructions such as ‘seventy years’, preferring archaisms such as ‘three score and ten’ that make the writing unnecessarily heavy.
- But it does not follow that Aristotle was not at bottom a systematic thinker; and the theory of science expounded in the Posterior Analytics cannot be dismissed as an irrelevant archaism, a genuflection to Plato's ghost.
- He was not happy with the strange inflections of the melodies, with their flattened 7ths and sharpened 6ths, and he was even more perplexed by the words: he had little English to begin with and the rustic archaisms only added to the problem.
- Their studios became the centre of Roman revivalist art, and the archaism of their style was admired by many foreign artists, including Ingres, Ford Madox Brown, and William Dyce, whose influence inspired the English Pre-Raphaelites.
1. 1.1mass noun The use or conscious imitation of archaic styles or features in language or art.
  （语言或艺术中的）拟古
  Mozart's use of archaism
  Example sentencesExamples
  It sounds like all the songs were recorded ten years ago, left in a vault to mature to archaism and then brought out in a fit of nostalgia.
  Language, never a Miller forte, is particularly troubling here: modern, but with a light dusting of archaism, which rings artificial.
  The crux of the dispute is whether Ptolemy was the mainstream and Dorotheus the breakaway development, or Dorotheus the mainstream and Ptolemy a deliberate attempt at archaism, perhaps for artistic reasons.
  The terminology of appearance and essence in Lukacs' critique of expressionism thus echoed his analysis of the outer archaism and inner modernity of naturalism.
  On the other hand, there is no law against deliberate archaism.

Derivatives

archaistic

adjective ɑːkeɪˈɪstɪk

Qing carving often included some part of an archaistic motif with the Qing style.
Example sentencesExamples
- Most of the archaistic and literal words can be found in lyrics dealing with religion and history.
- Due to the archaistic nature of the source material there remains some ambiguity.
- The foot is divided by four flanges and shows archaistic motifs vaguely suggestive of animal forms.
- Created in Rome in 1912, it is one of Manship's earliest works in which he employs these archaistic elements.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from modern Latin archaismus, from Greek arkhaismos, from arkhaizein 'imitate archaic styles', from arkhaios 'ancient', from arkhē 'beginning'.

Definition of archaism in US English:

archaism

noun

1A thing that is very old or old-fashioned.
古老的事物，过时的事物
Example sentencesExamples
- For example, Delany faults Forster, finding he clings in the end ‘to archaism and nostalgia while failing to engage the contemporary passions of the ordinary citizen’.
- The question of stylistic eclecticism and deliberate archaism also appears in Bergstein's book on the Florentine sculptor Nanni di Banco.
- ‘Much depends,’ Richard Sieburth remarks in a recent essay on Pound's Cavalcanti, ‘on how one chooses to interpret archaism as a poetic practice’.
- I'll miss the ‘princes and potentates’ language; I think there's a place in ceremony and ritual for a touch of archaism.
1. 1.1 An archaic word or style of language or art.
  古词；古语言风格；古艺术风格
  Example sentencesExamples
  In diction that juxtaposes archaisms with a lyricism that defies easy explication, McCarthy offers not a simple subject position but a widening pool of imagistic encounter.
  For it, he drew on Renaissance technical terms, derivations, compounds, archaisms, polysemy, etymological meanings, and idioms.
  If this optimism may seem unwarranted, at its best this type of research is sensitive to innovations and archaisms in the look and function of individual works, as well as to the social roles of their makers.
  His correspondence is in an affected ‘Roman style’ with stilted and archaized diction; his narrative letters, even reported speech, are full of archaisms like ‘thee,’ ‘varlet,’ and ‘durst.’
  But it does not follow that Aristotle was not at bottom a systematic thinker; and the theory of science expounded in the Posterior Analytics cannot be dismissed as an irrelevant archaism, a genuflection to Plato's ghost.
  The author, like many older scholars, seems incapable of using simple constructions such as ‘seventy years’, preferring archaisms such as ‘three score and ten’ that make the writing unnecessarily heavy.
  In addition, he anticipated the modern poets in objurgating the custom of garnishing poems with archaisms.
  He was not happy with the strange inflections of the melodies, with their flattened 7ths and sharpened 6ths, and he was even more perplexed by the words: he had little English to begin with and the rustic archaisms only added to the problem.
  Dafoe, Keitel, and most of the other actors, have distinctly American accents, and the script itself (by Paul Schrader) avoids archaisms in favor of an informal, almost modern sound.
  The advantages of modern dress are many, but contemporary dress in English-speaking performances comes at the price of a conflict between the archaism of the language and the modernity of the clothes.
  Legal language seems to rest on archaisms like ‘hereinafter.’
  It also affected Russian poets, for example Mayakovsky, in their choice of peasant themes or use of deliberate archaisms, incorrect spellings, and other deviations from standard usage.
  Their studios became the centre of Roman revivalist art, and the archaism of their style was admired by many foreign artists, including Ingres, Ford Madox Brown, and William Dyce, whose influence inspired the English Pre-Raphaelites.
  His translation of ‘Espergesia’ as ‘Epexegesis’ captures the power of this impossible word which some interpreters have considered to be a neologism and others an elusive archaism.
  I have always seen the position of the traditional mayor as an amusing archaism.
  The style is very literary and carefully wrought, filled with archaisms and with echoes of Lamb's master Sterne.
  Anno Domini’ is at least honest about its cultural specificity, and its being an archaism can only make it more arbitrary, which is all to the good.
  The word ‘apparency’ draws attention to itself as a Latinate archaism, witty and precise.
  We're already losing the word, and I doubt my children will use it any more than I use archaisms from Postmodern English.
  Berlioz, an opera composer denied access to the Opéra for years, used deliberate archaisms in L' Enfance du Christ, notable for its beautiful but un-Handelian choruses.
2. 1.2 The use or conscious imitation of very old or old-fashioned styles or features in language or art.
  （语言或艺术中的）拟古
  Example sentencesExamples
  The terminology of appearance and essence in Lukacs' critique of expressionism thus echoed his analysis of the outer archaism and inner modernity of naturalism.
  Language, never a Miller forte, is particularly troubling here: modern, but with a light dusting of archaism, which rings artificial.
  The crux of the dispute is whether Ptolemy was the mainstream and Dorotheus the breakaway development, or Dorotheus the mainstream and Ptolemy a deliberate attempt at archaism, perhaps for artistic reasons.
  On the other hand, there is no law against deliberate archaism.
  It sounds like all the songs were recorded ten years ago, left in a vault to mature to archaism and then brought out in a fit of nostalgia.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from modern Latin archaismus, from Greek arkhaismos, from arkhaizein ‘imitate archaic styles’, from arkhaios ‘ancient’, from arkhē ‘beginning’.

单词	archaism
释义	Definition of archaism in English: archaism noun ˈɑːkeɪɪz(ə)m 1A thing that is very old or old-fashioned, especially an archaic word or style of language or art. conscious archaisms inspired by French harpsichord music Example sentencesExamples I have always seen the position of the traditional mayor as an amusing archaism. For it, he drew on Renaissance technical terms, derivations, compounds, archaisms, polysemy, etymological meanings, and idioms. It also affected Russian poets, for example Mayakovsky, in their choice of peasant themes or use of deliberate archaisms, incorrect spellings, and other deviations from standard usage. The advantages of modern dress are many, but contemporary dress in English-speaking performances comes at the price of a conflict between the archaism of the language and the modernity of the clothes. In diction that juxtaposes archaisms with a lyricism that defies easy explication, McCarthy offers not a simple subject position but a widening pool of imagistic encounter. Dafoe, Keitel, and most of the other actors, have distinctly American accents, and the script itself (by Paul Schrader) avoids archaisms in favor of an informal, almost modern sound. His translation of ‘Espergesia’ as ‘Epexegesis’ captures the power of this impossible word which some interpreters have considered to be a neologism and others an elusive archaism. If this optimism may seem unwarranted, at its best this type of research is sensitive to innovations and archaisms in the look and function of individual works, as well as to the social roles of their makers. Berlioz, an opera composer denied access to the Opéra for years, used deliberate archaisms in L' Enfance du Christ, notable for its beautiful but un-Handelian choruses. The word ‘apparency’ draws attention to itself as a Latinate archaism, witty and precise. His correspondence is in an affected ‘Roman style’ with stilted and archaized diction; his narrative letters, even reported speech, are full of archaisms like ‘thee,’ ‘varlet,’ and ‘durst.’ Anno Domini’ is at least honest about its cultural specificity, and its being an archaism can only make it more arbitrary, which is all to the good. We're already losing the word, and I doubt my children will use it any more than I use archaisms from Postmodern English. In addition, he anticipated the modern poets in objurgating the custom of garnishing poems with archaisms. The style is very literary and carefully wrought, filled with archaisms and with echoes of Lamb's master Sterne. Legal language seems to rest on archaisms like ‘hereinafter.’ The author, like many older scholars, seems incapable of using simple constructions such as ‘seventy years’, preferring archaisms such as ‘three score and ten’ that make the writing unnecessarily heavy. But it does not follow that Aristotle was not at bottom a systematic thinker; and the theory of science expounded in the Posterior Analytics cannot be dismissed as an irrelevant archaism, a genuflection to Plato's ghost. He was not happy with the strange inflections of the melodies, with their flattened 7ths and sharpened 6ths, and he was even more perplexed by the words: he had little English to begin with and the rustic archaisms only added to the problem. Their studios became the centre of Roman revivalist art, and the archaism of their style was admired by many foreign artists, including Ingres, Ford Madox Brown, and William Dyce, whose influence inspired the English Pre-Raphaelites. 1.1mass noun The use or conscious imitation of archaic styles or features in language or art. （语言或艺术中的）拟古 Mozart's use of archaism Example sentencesExamples It sounds like all the songs were recorded ten years ago, left in a vault to mature to archaism and then brought out in a fit of nostalgia. Language, never a Miller forte, is particularly troubling here: modern, but with a light dusting of archaism, which rings artificial. The crux of the dispute is whether Ptolemy was the mainstream and Dorotheus the breakaway development, or Dorotheus the mainstream and Ptolemy a deliberate attempt at archaism, perhaps for artistic reasons. The terminology of appearance and essence in Lukacs' critique of expressionism thus echoed his analysis of the outer archaism and inner modernity of naturalism. On the other hand, there is no law against deliberate archaism. Derivatives archaistic adjective ɑːkeɪˈɪstɪk Qing carving often included some part of an archaistic motif with the Qing style. Example sentencesExamples Most of the archaistic and literal words can be found in lyrics dealing with religion and history. Due to the archaistic nature of the source material there remains some ambiguity. The foot is divided by four flanges and shows archaistic motifs vaguely suggestive of animal forms. Created in Rome in 1912, it is one of Manship's earliest works in which he employs these archaistic elements. Origin Mid 17th century: from modern Latin archaismus, from Greek arkhaismos, from arkhaizein 'imitate archaic styles', from arkhaios 'ancient', from arkhē 'beginning'. Definition of archaism in US English: archaism noun 1A thing that is very old or old-fashioned. 古老的事物，过时的事物 Example sentencesExamples For example, Delany faults Forster, finding he clings in the end ‘to archaism and nostalgia while failing to engage the contemporary passions of the ordinary citizen’. The question of stylistic eclecticism and deliberate archaism also appears in Bergstein's book on the Florentine sculptor Nanni di Banco. ‘Much depends,’ Richard Sieburth remarks in a recent essay on Pound's Cavalcanti, ‘on how one chooses to interpret archaism as a poetic practice’. I'll miss the ‘princes and potentates’ language; I think there's a place in ceremony and ritual for a touch of archaism. 1.1 An archaic word or style of language or art. 古词；古语言风格；古艺术风格 Example sentencesExamples In diction that juxtaposes archaisms with a lyricism that defies easy explication, McCarthy offers not a simple subject position but a widening pool of imagistic encounter. For it, he drew on Renaissance technical terms, derivations, compounds, archaisms, polysemy, etymological meanings, and idioms. If this optimism may seem unwarranted, at its best this type of research is sensitive to innovations and archaisms in the look and function of individual works, as well as to the social roles of their makers. His correspondence is in an affected ‘Roman style’ with stilted and archaized diction; his narrative letters, even reported speech, are full of archaisms like ‘thee,’ ‘varlet,’ and ‘durst.’ But it does not follow that Aristotle was not at bottom a systematic thinker; and the theory of science expounded in the Posterior Analytics cannot be dismissed as an irrelevant archaism, a genuflection to Plato's ghost. The author, like many older scholars, seems incapable of using simple constructions such as ‘seventy years’, preferring archaisms such as ‘three score and ten’ that make the writing unnecessarily heavy. In addition, he anticipated the modern poets in objurgating the custom of garnishing poems with archaisms. He was not happy with the strange inflections of the melodies, with their flattened 7ths and sharpened 6ths, and he was even more perplexed by the words: he had little English to begin with and the rustic archaisms only added to the problem. Dafoe, Keitel, and most of the other actors, have distinctly American accents, and the script itself (by Paul Schrader) avoids archaisms in favor of an informal, almost modern sound. The advantages of modern dress are many, but contemporary dress in English-speaking performances comes at the price of a conflict between the archaism of the language and the modernity of the clothes. Legal language seems to rest on archaisms like ‘hereinafter.’ It also affected Russian poets, for example Mayakovsky, in their choice of peasant themes or use of deliberate archaisms, incorrect spellings, and other deviations from standard usage. Their studios became the centre of Roman revivalist art, and the archaism of their style was admired by many foreign artists, including Ingres, Ford Madox Brown, and William Dyce, whose influence inspired the English Pre-Raphaelites. His translation of ‘Espergesia’ as ‘Epexegesis’ captures the power of this impossible word which some interpreters have considered to be a neologism and others an elusive archaism. I have always seen the position of the traditional mayor as an amusing archaism. The style is very literary and carefully wrought, filled with archaisms and with echoes of Lamb's master Sterne. Anno Domini’ is at least honest about its cultural specificity, and its being an archaism can only make it more arbitrary, which is all to the good. The word ‘apparency’ draws attention to itself as a Latinate archaism, witty and precise. We're already losing the word, and I doubt my children will use it any more than I use archaisms from Postmodern English. Berlioz, an opera composer denied access to the Opéra for years, used deliberate archaisms in L' Enfance du Christ, notable for its beautiful but un-Handelian choruses. 1.2 The use or conscious imitation of very old or old-fashioned styles or features in language or art. （语言或艺术中的）拟古 Example sentencesExamples The terminology of appearance and essence in Lukacs' critique of expressionism thus echoed his analysis of the outer archaism and inner modernity of naturalism. Language, never a Miller forte, is particularly troubling here: modern, but with a light dusting of archaism, which rings artificial. The crux of the dispute is whether Ptolemy was the mainstream and Dorotheus the breakaway development, or Dorotheus the mainstream and Ptolemy a deliberate attempt at archaism, perhaps for artistic reasons. On the other hand, there is no law against deliberate archaism. It sounds like all the songs were recorded ten years ago, left in a vault to mature to archaism and then brought out in a fit of nostalgia. Origin Mid 17th century: from modern Latin archaismus, from Greek arkhaismos, from arkhaizein ‘imitate archaic styles’, from arkhaios ‘ancient’, from arkhē ‘beginning’.
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