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medievalism

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me·di·e·val·ism also me·di·ae·val·ism  (md-v-lzm, md-)
n.
1. The spirit or the body of beliefs, customs, or practices of the Middle Ages.
2. Devotion to or acceptance of the ideas of the Middle Ages.
3. Scholarly study of the Middle Ages.
medievalism, mediaevalism [ˌmɛdɪˈiːvəˌlɪzəm]
n
1. (Historical Terms) the beliefs, life, or style of the Middle Ages or devotion to those
2. a belief, custom, or point of style copied or surviving from the Middle Ages
medievalism
strong fondness or admiration for the culture, mores, etc, of the Middle Ages. — medievalist, n. — medievalistic, adj.
See also: Past
Translations
medievalism [ˌmedɪˈiːvəlɪzəm] N → medievalismo m


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He painted with her as his model, admired her beauty and medievalism, and Anna dared not confess to herself that she was afraid of becoming jealous of this nurse, and was for that reason particularly gracious and condescending both to her and her little son.
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"Remember," he was saying, "the facts about this church of Santa Croce; how it was built by faith in the full fervour of medievalism, before any taint of the Renaissance had appeared.
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The Welsh and English countryside at that time presented the strangest mingling of the assurance and wealth of the opening twentieth century with a sort of Dureresque medievalism.
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