Word: archaicism
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Perhaps what the England of Christine Keeler and Stephen Ward needs is a touch of old Scotland. Judging by the archaic language of the Scottish Bigamy Act (1551), few offenders are more frowned upon than "thame that maryis twa sindrie wyfis or husbandis levand togiddir undervorsit [undivorced]." Under the act, punishment of such culprits is fixed at "confiscatioun of all theair gudis mouabill of their persounis for yeir and day." Also, they may "neuer habill to bruke [never again bear] office of honour, dignitie nor benefice...
...mess was almost a guarantee that the paper would be bought and the story read to the last word. The trick was a familiar one to British readers, wise to the ways of the brazen innuendo, the veiled hints of Fleet Street's popular press. Hemmed in by archaic libel laws, the scandal sheets are almost always read for the information they do not actually print-the stories that are suggested by the juxtaposition of columns or a long headline that just happens to run across the accounts of two otherwise unconnected events. All the Mirror really...
...Segal has translated the play into idioms that, for all their cleverness, alternate for the most part between the archaic and the Joosh. To his eternal credit, however, he has managed to preserve both of the original...
...organized Bible study groups for their parishioners. Non-Catholic scholars readily grant the quality of such modern Catholic Bibles as the English translations prepared by the late Monsignor Ronald Knox and the U.S.'s still-incomplete Confraternity editions, both of which were designed to replace the classic but archaic Douay version. A religious bestseller (more than 1.000,000 copies) is the French Jerusalem Bible, translated by the staff of Ecole Biblique, a respected center for Biblical research run by the Dominican order in the Jordanian section of Jerusalem...
...bush." In Explorer, Rocky Landscape, the protagonist looks as if he were attached, centaurlike, to his camel, as if the two were "united for survival." A century ago, explorers and traders introduced camels to Australia, and a few wild ones can still be seen, bringing to the continent "an archaic. Biblical feeling." It is the man's nakedness that fills the painting with a feeling of doom. In mid-Australia, stripping off clcothes is legendarily the last crazed, automatic act of a man dying for lack of water in a wasteland-an act the Aussies laconically call "doing...