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archaizer

archaizer noun: one who makes archaic, as by using an archaic style.

Noun

archaizer (plural archaizers)

  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

Forms of archaizer

pluralarchaizers
alternative formarchaiser

Origin of archaizer

From archaize + -er.

Questions about archaizer

What does archaizer mean?
Archaizer means one who makes archaic, as by using an archaic style.
What part of speech is archaizer?
Archaizer is a noun.
What is the plural of archaizer?
The plural of archaizer is archaizers.

Words near archaizer in the dictionary

  1. archaists
  2. archaization
  3. archaizations
  4. archaize
  5. archaized
  6. archaizer
  7. archaizers
  8. archaizes
  9. archaizing
  10. archaizingly
  11. archaka

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