Definition of "mediaevalism" [me•di•æ•val•ism]

• Variant of medievalism. (noun)

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• "At an age when her slow brother is still stubbing along somewhere in the neolithic period, she has flown way ahead to a kind of mediaeval stage, or dawn of mediaevalism, which is peculiarly her own."
• "The thing, at the very latest, smacks of mediaevalism."
• "This is the measure of our rise, but the Negro will not approach freedom until this hateful badge of slavery and mediaevalism has been reduced to less than 10 per cent."