Visigothic
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- adjective
- /ˌvɪzɪˈɡɒθɪk/
- Still, the fifteenth-century unification movement was, he finds, not the first after the destruction of Visigothic power, nor did a national sentiment cease to exist with the independence of those attempts at unity.
Examples
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To Buckle, the Visigoths are so weak that the clerics gain the ascendancy, "for, late in the sixth century, the Latin clergy converted their Visigothic masters" (2:9).
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Reading Buckle may have helped Ortega link the Catalan and Basque separatism of his times to the course of all Spanish history, from the Visigothic invasion to the 1920s.
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This other Visigothic queen of one of his brothers asks for the hand of her sister Galswynth.
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Late in the sixth century, the Latin-speaking clergy converted their Visigothic masters.
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Yet his tracing of this deficiency to Visigothic roots obeys the influence of Buckle.
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They conquered the Visigothic Kingdom by 718 when they crossed the Pyrenees.
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Unlike the feminized white nationalists that plague the movement today, in honor of what my Visigothic ancestors did with the miscegenators when they ruled Spain, after the anti-white system collapses, I look forward to imitating their sense of justice in cases of more recent sins against the Holy Ghost.
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By associating the king's name with eminent ancestors, many of them specifically "Spanish" Visigothic kings or members of the Habsburg house, Bances dramatizes a symbolic heritage and impresses upon his royal audience the importance of maintaining the integrity of its symbols.
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The Visigothic architecture of the church features intricate designs that reflect the culture of the time.
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Many artifacts from the Visigothic era provide insight into the daily lives of these early Germanic people.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Visigothic comes from Visigoth, a name made from old words meaning 'west' and 'Goth'. So Visigothic describes things that belong to that western Gothic people, like their art, law, or buildings.