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medievaloid

medievaloid adjective: having the likeness of the Middle Ages.

Adjective

medievaloid (comparative more medievaloid, superlative most medievaloid)

  1. Having the likeness of the Middle Ages.
    • As to the age difference between husbands and wives, which is essentially based on the patriarchal tradition that the man is the “senior” in the home, it will probably disappear in the case of all forms of marriage other than the classic familistic one; there, where people have explicitly decided...1973, Leo Davids, “North American Marriage: 1990”, in Judson R. Landis, editor, Current Perspectives on Social Problems, 3rd edition, Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth Publishing Company, Inc., →ISBN...
    • Dearly as I love the flavor of medieval Europe, I sympathize with those who find the endless monotony of uninventive, limp and lifeless medievaloid trilogies tiresome, and I approached [Orson Scott] Card’s books from the very first with high hopes.1990 July, Robert Killheffer, “Prentice Alvin by Orson Scott Card”, in The New York Review of Science Fiction, number 23, page 20, column 1

Examples of medievaloid in a sentence

  • Yet their mock-heroic novel of medievaloid enchantment does lie enough toward the hilarious end of the spectrum to let me say that if you think you would love the result of a collaboration between J.1993 December, Tom Easton, “The Reference Library”, in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, volume CXIII, number 14, page 167, column 1:
  • I wouldn’t have to change anything but the word spaceship.” But Card didn’t do the story as a medievaloid fantasy because of the publishing practices of the time.2003, Edith S. Tyson, Orson Scott Card: Writer of the Terrible Choice (Scarecrow Studies in Young Adult Literature; 10), Lanham, Md.: The...
  • Besides, there were none of the other medievaloid trappings that the SCAdians tended to bedeck their vehicles with.2005, Mercedes Lackey, Rosemary Edghill, Music to my Sorrow, Riverdale, N.Y.: Baen Books, published 2007, →ISBN, page 332:

Forms of medievaloid

comparativemore medievaloid
superlativemost medievaloid

Origin of medievaloid

From medieval + -oid.

Questions about medievaloid

What does medievaloid mean?
Medievaloid means having the likeness of the Middle Ages.
How do you use medievaloid in a sentence?
Yet their mock-heroic novel of medievaloid enchantment does lie enough toward the hilarious end of the spectrum to let me say that if you think you would love the result of a collaboration between J.
What part of speech is medievaloid?
Medievaloid is an adjective.

Words near medievaloid in the dictionary

  1. medievalized
  2. medievalizes
  3. medievalizing
  4. medievally
  5. medievalness
  6. medievaloid
  7. medievals
  8. medieveal
  9. medievistics
  10. Medieșu Aurit
  11. medifixed

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