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Adjective
middle-age (not comparable)
- (quasi-adjective) attributive form of Middle Ages
1840, Gen. P. Thompson, Exerc., volume V, page 31:With the same precaution that they would have consorted with the evil spirits of middle-age romance.
1853, Ruskin, Lect. Archit., chapter iv, page 217:That child is working in the middle-age spirit — the other in the modern spirit.
1869, F. W. Newman, Misc., page 46:Perhaps it incapacitated the Arabs and the middleage Schoolmen for all but formal reasoning.
Further reading
- James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Middle age, sb.”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes VI, Part 2 (M–N), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 421, column 2: “3. attrib., quasi-adj. (with hyphen). Belonging to the Middle Ages; mediæval.”.