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Victorianism|vɪkˈtɔərɪənɪz(ə)m|
[f. Victorian a.2 and n.1 + -ism.]
Victorian attitudes or style; (an example of) that which is characteristic of the Victorian era.
1905Westm. Gaz. 2 Feb. 4/2 The turban..is, of course, an early Victorianism. 1913Chesterton Victorian Age in Lit. iii. 196 The real revolts that broke up Victorianism at last. 1913Mrs. H. Ward Coryston Family xi. 216 A heavy gold setting, whereof the Early Victorianism cried aloud. 1942J. Lees-Milne Jrnl. 5 Feb. in Ancestral Voices (1975) 16 Others took the absurd view that this important house is once again pure Jacobean since the Victorianisms have been purged by the fire, which was the best thing that could have happened. 1974M. Tippett Moving into Aquarius 37 The two ways forward out of Victorianism seem to be equally dispiriting. 1978Dædalus Fall 72 He jettisoned much of what we think of as Victorianism, but not on the whole, the values of his family, school, and university. |