pseudo-archaic

Although written in a pseudo-archaic style as seen in the above quotes, it is not grating or wearing.

An Adventure of Cynicism Karen Burnham 2010

Wycheproof (adj.) - resistant to the charms of New Age enthusiasts who insist on using pseudo-archaic spelling.

THE SCATTERHEART SMALLTOWN COMPETITION lili 2007

It's not surprising that Marshall goes on to write in a weird pseudo-archaic style with locutions like "he well captured the way" and "the world in which we now live" and jocose, verbose images like "a 9th tier blogger or one of those whacks sitting on a stoop in Union Square talking about fascism and Texas oil barons before they get overcome by the shakes or decide to start collecting more aluminum cans."

Archive 2007-09-01 Ann Althouse 2007

It's laughable at first sight, all the makeup and getups and pseudo-archaic language.

Crossover Stars Shine 2007

Parallelisms and pseudo-archaic formulations abound: "They caught up and set out each day in the dark before the day yet was and they ate cold meat and biscuit and made no fire"; "and they would always be so and never be otherwise"; "the captain wrote on nor did he look up"; "there rode no soul save he," and so forth.

A Reader's Manifesto 2001

Parallelisms and pseudo-archaic formulations abound: "They caught up and set out each day in the dark before the day yet was and they ate cold meat and biscuit and made no fire"; "and they would always be so and never be otherwise"; "the captain wrote on nor did he look up"; "there rode no soul save he," and so forth.

A Reader's Manifesto 2001

LL has no very archaic forms, though it cultivates a pseudo-archaic style; and it is unlikely that the Leinster version goes back much earlier than 1050.

Táin Bó Cúalnge. English L. Winifred Faraday

Troad to England in the last century, is now admitted to be not a pseudo-archaic imitation, as Bockh maintained, but a genuine specimen of Greek writing in Asia Minor, contemporary, or nearly so, with the

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

Chatterton clothed his ideas in a pseudo-archaic English, so Moses of

Chapters on Jewish Literature Israel Abrahams 1891