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nineteenth-ˈcenturyism
The distinctive spirit, outlook, or character of the nineteenth century; a feature or trait suggestive of the nineteenth century.
1846Tennyson in H. Tennyson Alfred Ld. Tennyson (1897) I. 238 They seem to be very clever and full of a noble 19th century-ism (if you will admit such a word). 1891‘L. Malet’ Wages of Sin II. v. iii. 214 There is another of your perverted nineteenth-centuryisms! |