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Visigothically en · ADV

Etymology

From Visigothic + -ally.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) In a manner that involves or is concerned with Visigoths.
    • Bishop Alfonso of Burgos claimed seniority on the basis that he represented a most ancient, Visigothically-founded monarchy. 2006, Joseph Theodoor Leerssen, National Thought in Europe: A Cultural History, page 38:
    • Visigothically speaking, a materialist Gothic-fantastic proliferated and came to be called (in the twentieth century) science fiction[…]. 2012, Adam Roberts, “Gothic and horror fiction”, in Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn, editors, The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature, page 33:
    • The close connection between Visigothically ruled Spain and the East-Christian world, long opposed to the use of images, which we have noted in the case of their architecture, may have exerted its influence in S. Julian in this respect as welI. 1966, Harald Busch, Bernd Lohse, Pre-Romanesque Art, page xxvii: