archaizer

English

Etymology

archaize + -er

Noun

archaizer (plural archaizers)

  1. One who makes archaic, as by using an archaic style.
    • 2005, Tobias Reinhardt, John Norman Adams, Michael Lapidge, Aspects of the Language of Latin Prose, page 80:
      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.

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