archaizer

noun

archaizer

noun

Etymology From archaize + -er.

1

One who makes archaic, as by using an archaic style.

  • 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.2005, Tobias Reinhardt, John Norman Adams, Michael Lapidge, Aspects of the Language of Latin Prose, page 80:

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