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
According to the great Victorian psychologist Sigmund Freud, Victorianism was fundamentally about the repression of natural instincts.
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
To find them established for Mr. Strachey’s “eminent” Victorians is to enjoy a constant dry humor, since the invisible censor, the apostle of that expediency known as edification, stood at the very heart of Victorianism.
From The Invisible Censor by Hackett, Francis
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