archaizer

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noun

One who makes archaic, as by using an archaic style.

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Meanings

nounarchaizer (plural archaizers)

plural archaizers · alternative archaiser

  1. One who makes archaic, as by using an archaic style.

    It is a fact that this type includes a number of republican words that never became part of the literary language, except occasionally in the hands of later archaizers.

    2005, Tobias Reinhardt, John Norman Adams, Michael Lapidge, Aspects of the Language of Latin Prose, page 80

Origin

From archaize + -er.

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Translations

Polish archaizator
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APA

archaizer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/archaizer

MLA

“archaizer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/archaizer. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “archaizer,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/archaizer.

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