archaizer
/ˈɑːrkiˌaɪzər/
noun
- A person who uses or imitates old-fashioned language or style.
- The novelist was known as an archaizer, filling her dialogue with 'thou' and 'doth'.
- Some critics dismissed him as a mere archaizer, but his work had genuine charm.
- In the poetry club, the archaizer insisted on writing sonnets in Elizabethan English.
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