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noun
The use of an archaic expression.
synonym: archaism.
is a specific kind of: expression, formulation.
domain member usage: ambages | palfrey | gildhall | hold | hornpipe, pibgorn, stockhorn | complexion | sooth | muchness | fardel | alienism | the halt | mulatto | quadroon | octoroon | caitiff | simple | meed | bosom | air | fire | earth | ether, quintessence | water | menstruum | control | crease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle | trust | compass | abide, bide, stay | adust | dark-skinned, dusky, swart, swarthy | thrown, thrown and twisted | brainish, hotheaded, impetuous, impulsive, madcap, tearaway | dighted | commodious, convenient | proportionable | verbal | innocent | dowerless | amort | sublime | uplifted | leal | fervent, fervid | acold | frore | corroborant | base, baseborn | curtal | small | puissant | backward, feebleminded, half-witted, slow-witted | heartless | scrivened | careful | strait | horary | meretricious | apopemptic | scriptural | empiric, empirical | hence | away, forth, off | privily | brotherly | by chance, perchance | verily | imperativeness, instancy | African-American, Black, Negro, Negroid | bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with | like fun, like hell ... show more.
derivation: archaise, archaize | archaistic.
Dutch: verouderte uitdrukking, archaïsmePolish: archaizm
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