1. a person who uses or imitates archaic language, style, or forms
Usage: often used in literary or academic contexts

Examples

• The poet was known as an archaizer, deliberately employing Middle English vocabulary in her modern verses.
• Some critics dismissed him as an archaizer for his insistence on using obsolete grammatical constructions.
• The archaizer's affectation of old-fashioned speech made her writing difficult for contemporary readers to appreciate.
• Medieval scholars sometimes became archaizers, adopting the language of ancient texts in their own work.
• His tendency to archaize—to speak and write like an archaizer—set him apart from his peers.