Victorianism en · NOUN
Etymology
From Victorian + -ism.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) The behaviour or beliefs of the Victorians, especially prudery.
These [sex manuals] reflect an age in which, it appears, the only hope for heterosexual love is technical know-how. Supposedly designed to free the reader from Victorianism and guilt, these books constitute clumsy, self-conscious attempts to liberate the reader.
1976 February 7, L. S. Eneri, “New Sex Manual”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 32, page 12: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.
2022, Robert P. Vande Kappelle, Deeper Splendor: Spirituality and Personality in Modern Literature, Wipf and Stock, →ISBN:It is simply the imposition of more Victorianism into community standards.
1997 January 9, Morton Kondracke, “TV won't slow 'slouch to Gomorrah'”, in The Greenwood Index-Journal:
- (countable, uncountable) An expression or idiom characteristic of Victorian times.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| Victorianisms | Number=Plur | lexicographic |