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obsoletism

noun

Etymology

From obsolete + -ism.

  1. borrowed from obsolētus — “worn out, gone out of use”
  2. suffixed as obsoletism — “obsolete + ism”

Definitions

  1. A disused word or phrase

    A disused word or phrase; an archaism.

    • He cannot place side by side with 'in respect of', some kindred obsoletism; because any obsoletism, it seems, is equally bad grammar

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for obsoletism. 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