Visigothically

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Visigothic +‎ -ally

Adverb[edit]

Visigothically (not comparable)

  1. (manner) In a manner that involves or is concerned with Visigoths.
    • 1966, Harald Busch, Bernd Lohse, Pre-Romanesque Art, page xxvii:
      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.
    • 2006, Joseph Theodoor Leerssen, National Thought in Europe: A Cultural History[1], page 38:
      Bishop Alfonso of Burgos claimed seniority on the basis that he represented a most ancient, Visigothically-founded monarchy.
    • 2012, Adam Roberts, “Gothic and horror fiction”, in Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn, editors, The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature, page 33:
      Visigothically speaking, a materialist Gothic-fantastic proliferated and came to be called (in the twentieth century) science fiction [] .