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Mediaevalism

Meˊdi-ae′val-ism

(mēˊdĭ-ē′val-ĭz’m)
,
Noun.
The method or spirit of the Middle Ages; devotion to the institutions and practices of the Middle Ages; a survival from the Middle Ages.
[Written also
medievalism
.]

Definition 2024


mediaevalism

mediaevalism

English

Noun

mediaevalism (countable and uncountable, plural mediaevalisms)

  1. Alternative spelling of medievalism
    • 1926, Charles Pasco Hawkes, Mauresques: With Some Basque and Spanish Cameos (page 220)
      The three, however, continue to maintain together the unvulgarized mediaevalism of the place, and in the town hall, at any rate, there takes place every year a ceremony hallowed by a fantastic and antique tradition []