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archaicy

/ɑː(ɹ)ˈkeɪ.ɪ.si/

archaicy noun: the condition of being archaic.

Noun

archaicy (uncountable)

  1. (nonstandard, rare) The condition of being archaic.
    • With the discovery of an older frescoe^([sic]) representing Christ Antifonitos archaicy on the north-west pilaster, the latest excavations prove that before the restoration of the church and its being entirely frescoed there was another layer of paintings which were executed in the manner of the...1971, Antonie Nikolovski, Dimitar Ḱornakov, Kosta Balabanov, The Cultural Monuments of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia
    • […] which are known on the other walks of life of Ukrainian-linguistic dialectal continuum although they have differences in the phonetic and word-formation filling that testifies to the general progress of the dialectal adverbial system trends and archaicy of this layer of vocabulary.2016, H. Hyrmashevych, “The adverbs of time denotation of parts of the day in middle Polissian dialects of Zhytomyr area”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)

Synonyms of archaicy

Origin of archaicy

From archaic + -y.

Questions about archaicy

What does archaicy mean?
Archaicy means the condition of being archaic.
What part of speech is archaicy?
Archaicy is a noun.
How do you pronounce archaicy?
Archaicy is pronounced /ɑː(ɹ)ˈkeɪ.ɪ.si/.

Words near archaicy in the dictionary

  1. archaicizes
  2. archaicizing
  3. archaick
  4. archaicness
  5. archaics
  6. archaicy
  7. Archainbaud
  8. archaio-
  9. archaiologies
  10. archaiology
  11. archaiopteryx

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