archaistic
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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The superb piece, previously unpublished, displays archaistic features.
From New York Times • May 28, 2010
If the Rhesus is a post-classical play it can hardly be honest fourth-century work: it must be deliberately archaistic, a product of the Alexandrian spirit if not actually of the Alexandrian age.
From The Rhesus of Euripedes by Euripedes
Mr. Morris, and Avia, make him Icelandic, and archaistic, and hard to scan, though vigorous in his fetters for all that.
From Essays in Little by Lang, Andrew
There had always, it may be noted, existed an archaistic section of literary society.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth
From some such feeling came the Pre-Raphaelite movement of our own day and the archaistic movement of later Greek sculpture.
From Reviews by Wilde, Oscar
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