middle-age

A form of middle ages — The period of primarily European history between the decline of the Western Roman Empire (antiquity) and the early modern period or the Renaissance; the time between c. 500 and 1500 CE.

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Meanings

adjectivemiddle-age (not comparable)

alternative middleage

  1. attributivenot comparableAttributive 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
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    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

    Perhaps it incapacitated the Arabs and the middleage Schoolmen for all but formal reasoning.

    1869, F. W. Newman, Misc., page 46
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