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Archaist vs Archaistic - What's the difference?

archaist | archaistic |

As a noun archaist

is a person who studies archaic things; an antiquary.

As an adjective archaistic is

pertaining to an archaist; deliberately archaic, old-fashioned in an affected way.

archaist

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Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who studies archaic things; an antiquary
  • A person who uses archaisms in language

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    archaistic

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    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to an archaist; deliberately archaic, old-fashioned in an affected way.
  • * 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.27:
    • The emperor Augustus introduced an archaistic revival of ancient virtue and ancient religion, which caused the poem of Lucretius On the Nature of Things to become unpopular, and it remained so until the Renaissance.