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Victorianism

noun

Etymology

From Victorian + -ism.

  1. derived from Victōriānus
  2. derived from Victoriano
  3. suffixed as victorianism — “Victorian + ism”

Definitions

  1. The behaviour or beliefs of the Victorians, especially prudery.

    • It is simply the imposition of more Victorianism into community standards.
    • As [Virginia] Woolf, a founder of the Bloomsberries, famously declared, human nature changed “in 1910, on or about December 10.” That, she thought, was the day that Victorianism died and a new order arose.

  2. An expression or idiom characteristic of Victorian times.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA