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
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
Still further to qualify the Victorianism which he was heir to, Borrow took over something from the insinuating Sterne.
From George Borrow The Man and His Books by Thomas, Edward
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