Medievality
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The quality of being medieval. uncountable
"His late wife ran a Victorian inn in upstate New York; his son grew up mimicking his father’s medievality and, shunning his contemporaries, devoted himself to early music; his mother-in-law is an ethnic Lemko from the Carpathians, intent on recreating the way of life her people lived before their slaughter and forced deportations in the 1940s."
- 2 The quality of being of or relating to the Middle Ages, perhaps circa 500 to circa 1500 CE. wordnet
Example
More examples"His late wife ran a Victorian inn in upstate New York; his son grew up mimicking his father’s medievality and, shunning his contemporaries, devoted himself to early music; his mother-in-law is an ethnic Lemko from the Carpathians, intent on recreating the way of life her people lived before their slaughter and forced deportations in the 1940s."
Etymology
From medieval + -ity.
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