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Archaism

In language, an archaism is a word, a sense of a word, or a style of speech or writing that belongs to a historical epoch beyond living memory, but that has survived in a few practical settings or affairs. Lexical archaisms are single archaic words or expressions used regularly in an affair (e.g. religion or law) or freely; literary archaism is the…

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HistoryPoetryFantasy literaturePhilosophyScience
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ThouNominativeObliqueObjectiveAccusative
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LanguageLexicalReligiousLawLiterary
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Ancient Greek
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Archaism

Nodes52
Edges51
Triples16
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.038462
Components1

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related to Usage · 6
Archaism → Archaisms, Because, British, However, Second World War, Should
is a · 3
Archaism → survival of archaic language in a traditional literary text such as a nursery rhyme or the deliberate use of a style characteristic of an earlier age, use of thou, word
related to Etymology · 2
Archaism → Ancient Greek, The
related to Examples · 2
Archaism → English, Thou
related to External links · 2
Archaism → Egyptology, UCLA Encyclopedia

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archaic archaisms used example words language word use contexts sense expressions obsolete called law thou speech writing thee english one

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Archaismis aword0.90text
Archaismis asurvival of archaic language in a traditional literary text such as a nursery rhyme or the deliberate use of a style characteristic of an earlier age0.90text
Archaismis ause of thou0.90text
a nursery rhyme or the deliberate use of a style characteristic of an earlier ageinstance ofliterary archaism is the survival of archaic language in a traditional literary text0.80text
Archaismrelated to EtymologyThe0.60section
Archaismrelated to EtymologyAncient Greek0.60section
Archaismrelated to ExamplesThou0.60section
Archaismrelated to ExamplesEnglish0.60section
Archaismrelated to External linksUCLA Encyclopedia0.60section
Archaismrelated to External linksEgyptology0.60section
Archaismrelated to UsageArchaisms0.60section
Archaismrelated to UsageShould0.60section

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