middleagism
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Ag(es) + -ism.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]middleagism (uncountable)
- (nonce word) Synonym of medievalism (“medieval styles of art”)
- 1840, Thackeray, Pict. Rhapsody, in Wks. 1900, volume XIII, page 348:
- May we add a humble wish that this excellent painter will…not busy himself with Gothicism, middleagism?
Further reading
[edit]- James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Middlea·geism”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VI, Part 2 (M–N), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 421, column 2.