Archaizer

noun

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Noun
  1. 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."

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"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."

Etymology

From archaize + -er.

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