Definition of "Victorianism"

Victorianism

noun
countable and uncountable, plural Victorianisms
1. The behaviour or beliefs of the Victorians, especially prudery.
  Quotations
  It is simply the imposition of more Victorianism into community standards.
  1997 January 9, Morton Kondracke, “TV won't slow 'slouch to Gomorrah'”, in The Greenwood Index-Journal
2. An expression or idiom characteristic of Victorian times.