mediaeval
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- antimediaeval adjective
- antimediaevally adverb
- postmediaeval adjective
- pseudomediaeval adjective
- quasi-mediaeval adjective
- unmediaeval adjective
Example Sentences
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Helpfully, Naismith had "a powerhouse of early mediaeval numismatic research" on his doorstep: The Fitzwilliam Museum.
From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2024
He is like a latterday intellectual, a Christopher Hitchens perhaps, transposed to a mediaeval era; the most modern-minded character in the show, and as such among the most relatable.
From The Guardian • Apr. 10, 2019
On Saturday, the Manneken Pis will receive a new costume based on a mediaeval city pageant.
From Reuters • Feb. 3, 2017
“The glamorous vast multiplicity, all made up of differences, mediaeval, romantic differences,” D. H. Lawrence wrote, in “Mr. Noon,” his semi-fictional account of crossing the Alps with Frieda Weekley after their elopement.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 11, 2016
From her pocket he tugged a huge bunch of rusted keys on an iron ring like a mediaeval jailer’s and ran back up the hall with the two women behind him.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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