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medievalistic

medievalistic adjective: having a medieval style, though not actually from that era.

Adjective

medievalistic (comparative more medievalistic, superlative most medievalistic)

  1. Having a medieval style, though not actually from that era.
    • Even in medievalistic material that manifestly reveals its non-medieval nature there is always the claim that this material is actually medieval (sometimes even more medieval than that which is recovered).2009, Elizabeth Scala, Sylvia Federico, The Post-Historical Middle Ages
  2. Relating to the study of medievalism.
    • The medievalistic seminars conducted by Professor Marceli Handelsman produced a considerable number of works on society and power in the Merovingian and Carolingian Europe.1975, Acta Poloniae Historica

Forms of medievalistic

comparativemore medievalistic
superlativemost medievalistic
alternative Commonwealthmediaevalistic

Origin of medievalistic

From medieval + -istic.

Questions about medievalistic

What does medievalistic mean?
Medievalistic means having a medieval style, though not actually from that era.
What part of speech is medievalistic?
Medievalistic is an adjective.

Words near medievalistic in the dictionary

  1. medievalish
  2. medievalising
  3. medievalism
  4. medievalisms
  5. medievalist
  6. medievalistic
  7. medievalistics
  8. medievalists
  9. medievality
  10. medievalize
  11. medievalized

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