archaic form

collocation in English

meaningsofarchaicandform

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archaic
adjective
uk
/ɑːˈkeɪ.ɪk/us
/ɑːrˈkeɪ.ɪk/
of or belonging to an ancient period ...
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form
noun
uk
/fɔːm/us
/fɔːrm/
a paper or set of papers printed with spaces in which answers to questions can be written or information can be recorded in an ...
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(Definition ofarchaicandformfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofarchaic form

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Ourarchaicformof railway valuation has been extremely slipshod, ever since it first existed.
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I understand that voting is still open, which is rather anarchaicformof electing a constitutional government.
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Thearchaicformand the sonorous rotundity of its language conceal the hard economic fact of its kernel.
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It is now quite common to refer in legislation to "money"rather than the morearchaicform"monies".
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That was literally true until 1832, when thisarchaicformof language was retained but the obligation physically to appear and the liability to arrest disappeared.
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Leasehold is anarchaicformof land tenure which has been largely discontinued in all parts of the world.
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A few still have the older strong past as anarchaicform.
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Apart from a few albeit remarkable exceptions, thisarchaicformhas not been much employed in later times.
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Here, the grandiose self is nothing more than anarchaicformthat prospectively ought to become the normal self.
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To avoid him, she took herarchaicformof a mare, but he took the form of a stallion and mated with her.
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The spelling cocoanut is anarchaicformof the word.
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Amarant is a more correct, albeitarchaicform, chiefly used in poetry.
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Dictionaries usually give it as anarchaicformof hummock (hammock appeared in print earlier than hummock).
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The intrusion of archaic forms of narcissism, it is believed, is the source of anxiety disorders in the modern world.
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She uses "sessha" and "de gozaru" in her speech, a formalarchaicformof speech much used by samurai in the past.
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It is an open question whether the changui represents a genuinely distinctive music, or whether it is simply anarchaicformof son artificially preserved by state support.
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She ends her sentences with the phrase -de gozaru, similar to the phrase -desu but in anarchaicformused by samurais in the past.
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Niois is thearchaicformof provenal closest to the original language of the troubadours, and is sometimes to said to be literary language of its own.
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