How To Use archaism In A Sentence
- No costume or grandiose outline is here as in Brittany, no picturesque poverty, no poetic archaisms; all is rustic and pastoral, but with the rusticity and pastoralness of every day. Holidays in Eastern France
- I should not admit that Luke is following an unjustifiable archaism in using the term mathētai so frequently in Acts. [690] Is not a restriction of the idea voiced as early as Matt.x. 42 (hos an potisē hena tōn mikrōn toutōn potērion psuchroō monon eis onoma mathētou)? The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries
- 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.
- 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.’
- He has put into his paintings every phase of life, and it is all so genuine and accurate, so true to reality that in his work, after five centuries, the Italian trecento still lives for us, despite the deplorable state of the frescoes, the defects of his perspective, and the childlike archaism of certain technical formulæ. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
- On the other hand, there is no law against deliberate archaism.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- But how varied, how ingenious in incident, how full of funny gesture and dry discrimination, is this undergraduate epic; with such a gay gallopade of mortality and such decorative archaism of expression, and such a solicitude for words. Zuleika Dobson