- (a.) Antiquity of style or use; obsoleteness.
- (a.) An ancient, antiquated or old-fashioned, word, expression or idiom; a word or form of speech no longer in common use.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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| MLA | Webster's. "archaism" 27 May 2011. Web. 22 September 2026. <http://smartdefine.org/archaism/definitions/1975522> |