What's the difference between archaic and archaism?

Archaic


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or characterized by antiquity or archaism; antiquated; obsolescent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Its language is “archaic and obscure”, the commission says.
  • (2) Separate item pools were developed to measure each disposition: Trance, Nonconscious Involvement, Archaic Involvement, Drowsiness, Relaxation, Vividness of Imagery, Absorption, and Access to the Unconscious.
  • (3) The patriarchal laws and the predominantly male enforcers of said archaic acts of parliaments condemn us criminals if we terminate our pregnancies.
  • (4) The stomach of N. savona shows gastric glands of an archaic type, without any acid-secreting parietal cells.
  • (5) The study presents a demographic assessment of the Carlston Annis (Bt-5) Late Archaic hunting and gathering population recovered from the banks of the Green River in west-central Kentucky.
  • (6) In extreme anticipatory condensation--what I do propose, from my own reflections, is the preeminent importance of an archaic characterological core in depressive illness.
  • (7) The two most distinct models of recent human evolution, the multiregional and the recent African origin models, have different retrodictions concerning specific archaic-recent population relationships.
  • (8) The Parkinsonian-like walking pattern of the healthy old-aged human is thought to be a disinhibition of an archaic pattern of posture and movement.
  • (9) Stress is laid on the role played by archaic fears of being the bearer of evil tidings.
  • (10) Nor was it an institution, or a curious, outdated source of national pride, or an embarrassingly archaic badge of national pride , of a Britain continuing to punch above its weight on the international scene.
  • (11) It added that mistakes in how officers handled intelligence could be down to its "archaic paper-based system, a lack of personal responsibility by officers, convoluted policing structures and subjective assessments of what was relevant".
  • (12) Microbiology laboratories that offer only the archaic retrospective Weil-Felix serologic tests should review the needs of their patients.
  • (13) the projective identification (archaic form), the identification, the transference (in psychotherapy), the regression etc.
  • (14) These observations demonstrate that thyroglobulin has evolved from the condensation of a duplicated copy of the acetylcholinesterase gene with an archaic thyroglobulin gene encoding the major hormonogenic domain.
  • (15) It is considered as a transsynaptic degeneration which probably reveals an archaic phenomenon, submerged but not lost through evolution.
  • (16) We need a smarter system of information use, not a bigger one; a digital NHS, not a paper-based archaic NHS.
  • (17) When the dust settles from this particular takeover furore, we should start thinking more practically about the fundamental purpose of companies: the current structure of narrow shareholder ownership is based on an archaic interpretation of shareholding and a very narrow objective: to maximise their return.
  • (18) The state of Wisconsin is still clinging to an archaic contraceptive law that prohibits birth control for unmarrieds.¿The mos t tragic victims of this law are unmarried teen-agers because studies indicate that sexual intercourse is very frequent among teen-agers, yet access to contraception is hard to come by.¿It is hoped that the Legislature will see fit to repeal this outdated contraceptive law.
  • (19) These results strongly suggest the presence of a V-ATPase in pinocytic vesicles of E. histolytica, and thereby support the notion that the V-ATPases in the organelles of higher eukaryotes are derived from an archaic plasma membrane-bound form.
  • (20) Submitted to their narcissistically uncathected archaic superego, depressives are strictly directed towards law and order.

Archaism


Definition:

  • (a.) An ancient, antiquated, or old-fashioned, word, expression, or idiom; a word or form of speech no longer in common use.
  • (a.) Antiquity of style or use; obsoleteness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Simon Jenkins makes many excellent points supporting the removal of the “fiscal archaism” that is non-dom status ( Don’t stop at non-doms – stamp out all the tax tricks , 9 April).
  • (2) It is easy to accuse Clegg of mishandling the Rennard affair but he is at the mercy of a chaotic "open market" for vexatious litigation and of an upper chamber of Byzantine archaism desperately in need of reform.
  • (3) Defence is an area where governments are notoriously beholden to archaism and special interests – and where oppositions have a duty of challenge.
  • (4) Non-dom status is to fiscal policy what leeches once were to medicine, a lingering archaism embedded in professional custom and practice, and thus hard to change.
  • (5) The extraction of organs causes symbolic and cultural given to appear, leading to the elaboration of fantasies isclosure of archaisms and its fears.
  • (6) Playing the drunken hedonist deadbeat dad to Andy Samberg's uptight square son, Sandler uses a rasping voice that's like sandpaper on the eardrums, especially given his repetition of the unmissed noughties archaism "Whaaaaazzzzuuuuppp???"
  • (7) Stripped of the "British" comfort blanket, the archaism of England's power structure and its monstrous north-south imbalance would become visible and intolerable.
  • (8) Futurism held in equal contempt symbolism, classicism, moralism, parliamentarianism, feminism, "Don Juanism", individualism, archaism, egoism, pessimism, "and every kind of materialistic self-serving cowardice".
  • (9) And I'd love to think that this type of behaviour was a generational thing, shortly to be flushed out, a perplexing archaism, like smoking in cinemas .
  • (10) A "lively public radio show about words, language, and how we use them" is how this show is described, and its hosts – Martha Barnette , an author, and Grant Barrett , a lexicographer – brilliantly cover everything to do with language: slang, colloquialisms, grammar, word debates, style and usage, dialects and even archaisms.

Words possibly related to "archaism"