Victorianism
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]Victorianism (countable and uncountable, plural Victorianisms)
- The behaviour or beliefs of the Victorians, especially prudery.
- 1976 February 7, L. S. Eneri, “New Sex Manual”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 32, page 12:
- 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.
- 1997 January 9, Morton Kondracke, “TV won't slow 'slouch to Gomorrah'”, in The Greenwood Index-Journal:
- It is simply the imposition of more Victorianism into community standards.
- An expression or idiom characteristic of Victorian times.