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Grundyism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    narrow and unintelligent conventionalism uncountable
  2. 2
    excessive or affected modesty wordnet

Etymology

From Grundy + -ism, after Mrs Grundy, a minor character in Thomas Morton's play Speed the Plough (1798) who came to personify the tyranny of conventional propriety.

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