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Mediaevalism

Mediaevalism \Me`di*[ae]"val*ism\ (m[=e]`d[i^]*[=e]"val*[i^]z'm), n. 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.]

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mediaevalism

n. (alternative spelling of medievalism English)

Usage examples of "mediaevalism".

From above the Boers were flooding down, as Churchill saw them, dour, resolute, riding silently through the rain, or chanting hymns round their camp fires--brave honest farmers, but standing unconsciously for mediaevalism and corruption, even as our rough-tongued Tommies stood for civilisation, progress, and equal rights for all men.