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archaist

noun

Etymology

Either archaic + -ist or archaism + -ist.

  1. derived from *h₂ergʰ-✻
  2. formed as archaist — “archaic + -ist”

Definitions

  1. A person who studies archaic things

    A person who studies archaic things; an antiquary

  2. A person who uses archaisms in language

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for archaist. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA