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Archive   /ˈɑrkˌaɪv/   Listen
noun
Archive  n.  (pl. archives)  
1.
pl. The place in which public records or historic documents are kept. "Our words... become records in God's court, and are laid up in his archives as witnesses."
2.
pl. Public records or documents preserved as evidence of facts; as, the archives of a country or family. (Rarely used in sing.) "Some rotten archive, rummaged out of some seldom explored press."
Synonyms: Registers; records; chronicles.





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"Archive" Quotes from Famous Books



... times before she reached the door he wished to call her back, and he sought in the archive of his brain and in the treasury of his heart the words that might touch her. But he sought in vain. So long as she was before his eyes, a chilled air, dull and unresonant, divided his soul from hers. Her hand ...
— Via Crucis • F. Marion Crawford
... no castle, and no natural circle, in which I might live, like the wise Makaria, observing my kindred the stars, and gradually enriching my archives. Makaria here must go abroad, or the stars would hide their light, and the archive remain a blank. ...
— Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Vol. I • Margaret Fuller Ossoli


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