单词 | victorianly |
释义 | Victorianlyadv. In a Victorian manner or style; (also) prudishly, formally. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [adverb] > in specific historical periods 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). < adv.1917 |
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