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单词 victorianly
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Victorianlyadv.

Etymology: < Victorian adj.2 + -ly suffix2.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: Vicˈtorianly.
In a Victorian manner or style; (also) prudishly, formally.
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antediluvially1826
B.C.E.1881
Victorianly1917
1917 Duke of Norfolk Notebk. 112 In conventional rooms, furnished Victorianly.
1933 C. Williams Shadows of Ecstasy i. 22 The clothes were late Victorian; the whole picture was Victorianly idyllic.
1940 E. F. Benson Final Edition xii. 249 No doubt this boom in promiscuity was partly due to reaction, for an undue reticence had been Victorianly observed about sexual instincts.
1967 A. Wilson No Laughing Matter iii. 250 This..conventionally, almost Victorianly clad huge body.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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