Meaning of Victorianism | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The behaviour or beliefs of the Victorians, especially prudery.
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2. An expression or idiom characteristic of Victorian times.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“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.”

“It is simply the imposition of more Victorianism into community standards.”

“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.”

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