Victorianism
Americannoun
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the distinctive character, thought, tendencies, etc., of the Victorian period.
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an instance or example of such thought, tendencies, etc.
Etymology
Origin of Victorianism
Example Sentences
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So the Midwest, Lauck writes, developed “a tempered Victorianism adjusted to frontier conditions and American pragmatism.”
From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2022
There was clearly a Christian precedent for Victorian obsessions, and Victorianism was certainly tied to Christian piety.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020
“It’s super important to learn to distinguish between Victorianism and Biblical Christianity,” she said.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 8, 2019
To the modernists intent on shaking off the conventions of Victorianism, he represented the epitome of that era, his serenely omniscient and ironic third-person narrator the essence of bogus authority.
From Slate • May 30, 2016
His short stories have the same flavor of belated Victorianism that one enjoys in the novels of William De Morgan, and he is equally noteworthy in his chosen field.
From The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)
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