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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
middle-age en · ADJ
Meanings
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(attributive, form-of, not-comparable) Attributive form of Middle Ages.
That child is working in the middle-age spirit — the other in the modern spirit.
1853, Ruskin, Lect. Archit., chapter iv, page 217:Perhaps it incapacitated the Arabs and the middleage Schoolmen for all but formal reasoning.
1869, F. W. Newman, Misc., page 46:With the same precaution that they would have consorted with the evil spirits of middle-age romance.
1840, Gen. P. Thompson, Exerc., volume V, page 31:
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