Victorianly
adv
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adverb
- 1 In a Victorian style or manner.
"Each story of self-education has, to be sure, its period slant. Lewis Carroll’s Alice learns to resist the world’s nonsense, however seductively dressed as logic, but she also learns, Victorianly, that manners matter."
Example
More examples"Each story of self-education has, to be sure, its period slant. Lewis Carroll’s Alice learns to resist the world’s nonsense, however seductively dressed as logic, but she also learns, Victorianly, that manners matter."
Etymology
From Victorian + -ly.
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