Victorianism

American  

[vik-tawr-ee-uh-niz-uhm, -tohr-] / vɪkˈtɔr i əˌnɪz əm, -ˈtoʊr- /

noun

1. the distinctive character, thought, tendencies, etc., of the Victorian period.

2. an instance or example of such thought, tendencies, etc.

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Etymology

Origin of Victorianism

First recorded in 1900–05; Victorian + -ism

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Example Sentences

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Victorianism

So the Midwest, Lauck writes, developed “a tempered Victorianism adjusted to frontier conditions and American pragmatism.”

From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 2022

Victorianism was the culture of top hats, of dresses that covered every inch of the female body, of rigid gender norms, and of an almost pathological fear of sexuality.

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

It whisks away any cobwebs of Victorianism from its portrait of a willful, complicated queen whose own father sized her up as “rather a pocket Hercules, than a pocket Venus.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2016

It runs at times to rotten Victorianism, both heavy and vague, as when he calls El Greco or Domenico “a most extraordinary genius, some of whose productions possess merit of a very high order.”

From George Borrow The Man and His Books by Edward Thomas

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