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Definition of Medievalisms
1. medievalism [n] - See also: medievalism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Medievalisms
Literary usage of Medievalisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Old Picture Books: Words of Good Counsel on the Choice and Use of Books by James Baldwin, Oakland Free Library, Alfred William Pollard (1902)
"... Virgil would have been puzzled by the cannon here shown as employed in the
siege of Nova Troja, and similar medievalisms abound throughout the volume. ..."
2. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1899)
"... possess it (clouded by some thirteenth-century medievalisms) and in St. Sever.
The close relationship of the Beatus cartography to such an old imperial ..."
3. The Bookman (1906)
"... and the memorizing of facts and competitive examinations are exploded
medievalisms—all of which is half true in a sense, and wholly false in the sense ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1908)
"... adopted what has been well described as a kind of ' Wardour Street English'—-a,
modern English sprinkled with pinchbeck and irrelevant medievalisms. ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1889)
"It is time that we should give up these medievalisms, the perpetual confession
of wrongs which we have not done, and the suggestion of savage remedies which ..."
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