0 a word or expression that is not generally used any more
This distinctive modal colouring in turn supports one of the track's principal themes, namely the music's sense of archaism.
First, "paganism," "archaism" and "reaction" are dangerous, but only when used as foils for modernization.
This peculiar rhyme may embody that stylistic archaism.
Would we be shocked by archaisms (as we surely would be if some of the staging manuals' melodramatic instructions to the singers were followed)?
Was it reuse for revival-an interest in archaism?
As a result, this quotation has the charm of archaism but otherwise states the obvious.
The more we are shut out from the 'magic circle', the greater our awareness of the archaism, the magic of this circle.
The new kana spelling conventions brought the system much more in line with modern pronunciation, although a few archaisms were retained.
