What's the difference between archaism and archaist?

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.

Archaist


Definition:

  • (n.) Am antiquary.
  • (n.) One who uses archaisms.

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