Arthurianismn.
/ɑːˈθjʊərɪənɪz(ə)m/, /ɑːˈθjɔːrɪənɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ɑrˈθ(j)ʊriəˌnɪz(ə)m/ The beliefs or doctrine based on the practices and outlook of the legendary King Arthur and his knights.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > customs, values, or beliefs of a society or group > [noun] > of specific society or group
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1854 G. D. Barber Suggestions Anc. Britons 30 Glastonbury, the seat of Arthurianism.
1908 A. Noyes William Morris ii. 22 One true Church of Arthurianism.
1932 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 July 521/2 The Arthurianism of the sixteenth century comes to little more than a topic for pageantry.
1979 D. Thomas Swinburne iv. 87 It was a book..for..reading aloud, in those families which had taken to the bland Arthurianism of Tennyson.
2002 E. A. Fay Romantic Medievalism iii. 95 Arthurianism offers a significant model for historical thinking so long as it throws the poet..back into the present time.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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