ARCHAISM
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ARCHAISM. In
RHETORIC, literary criticism, and
PHILOLOGY, a style that reflects the usage of an earlier period (
literary archaism) and an out-of-date or old-fashioned word or phrase (
a lexical archaism).
Literary archaism occurs when a style is modelled on older works, so as to revive earlier practices or achieve a desired effect.
Lexical archaisms are a common feature of such a style and of such registers as religion and law. Archaism is often a consequence of purism and may rest on the belief that language and life in days of yore were plainer, more democratic, and more natural. Such archaisms as
ere before,
prithee I pray you, are often used for effect, especially in the dialogue of historical novels: ‘Dear father, prithee add thyself to that venerable company ere the soup cools’ ( Margaret in Charles Reade's
The Cloister and the Hearth, 1861).
See
ANACHRONISM,
JOURNALESE,
SAXONISM.
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