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Medievalism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being medieval. countable, uncountable

    "It is striking, and quite in character with the man, that he [Sir Walter Scott], who had popularised a romantic notion of the Middle Ages, should be a convinced supporter of the railway, which was effectively to destroy the few traces of medievalism that had survived into the society of his time."

  2. 2
    The study of the Middle Ages. uncountable
  3. 3
    A custom or belief from the Middle Ages. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From medieval + -ism.

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