Definition of Archaizing

1. Verb. (present participle of archaize) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Archaizing

1. archaize [v] - See also: archaize

Lexicographical Neighbors of Archaizing

archaiopteryx
archaise
archaised
archaises
archaising
archaism
archaisms
archaist
archaistic
archaists
archaize
archaized
archaizer
archaizers
archaizes
archaizing (current term)
archangel
archangelic
archangelical
archangels
archbishop
archbishophood
archbishophoods
archbishopric
archbishoprick
archbishopricks
archbishoprics
archbishops
archchamberlain
archchamberlains

Literary usage of Archaizing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Indoeuropean Classification: A Lexicostatistical Experiment by Isidore Dyen, Joseph B. Kruskal, Paul Black (1992)
"... in current colloquial use except perhaps by some families of high education. archaizing artificially removes t «Hth closely related colloquial lists, ..."

2. Certain Sources of Corruption in Latin Manuscripts: A Study Based Upon Two by Frederick William Shipley (1904)
"... be more than one example of archaizing. To judge from this single page, it might seem as though the tendency to archaize were common;1 but I have made a ..."

3. The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore: Terracotta Figurines of the Classical by Gloria S. Merker (2000)
"23, note 1), itself an archaizing creation of the 5th century BC, ... Since no examples of the archaizing type were found in the Potters' Quarter, ..."

4. The Temple of Apollo Bassitas by Frederick A. Cooper (1996)
"The off-beat features of the capital contribute to an archaizing appearance; if it is archaizing, then it dates to the Hellenistic or Roman period. ..."

5. Studies in Archaic Corinthian Vase Painting by Patricia Lawrence, Darrell Arlynn Amyx (1996)
"... AN Stillwell gave it detailed description and singled it out for preliminary publication.23 It is fussy and archaizing and inconsistent: fussy in its ..."

6. Classical Studies in Honour of Henry Drisler by Henry Drisler (1894)
"Though the masc. form does not appear in any writer earlier than Petronius, we are justified in regarding it as due either to the archaizing tendency, ..."

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