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medievally
adverb
(alsomediaevally)uk /medˈiː.vəl.i/ us /ˌmedˈiː.vəl.i/
in a way that is very old-fashioned or typical of the Middle Ages(= the period in European history from about 600 CE to 1500 CE):
They are still somewhat medievally suspicious of strangers.
She took a mediaevally twisting and dark spiral staircase down into the basement.
The optician fitted a pair of medievally heavy glass spectacles on his nose.
The prison camps were usually either medievally uncomfortable or monotonously similar.
It will revolutionize the treatment of disease, making our current treatments seem medievally clumsy and crude.
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