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Victorianly

Victorianly adverb: in a Victorian style or manner.

Adverb

Victorianly (comparative more Victorianly, superlative most Victorianly)

  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.2011 October 17, Adam Gopnik, “Broken Kingdom”, in The New Yorker

Forms of Victorianly

comparativemore Victorianly
superlativemost Victorianly

Origin of Victorianly

From Victorian + -ly.

Questions about Victorianly

What does Victorianly mean?
Victorianly means in a Victorian style or manner.
What part of speech is Victorianly?
Victorianly is an adverb.

Words near Victorianly in the dictionary

  1. Victorianists
  2. Victorianize
  3. Victorianized
  4. Victorianizes
  5. Victorianizing
  6. Victorianly
  7. Victorianness
  8. Victoriano
  9. Victorianos
  10. Victorians
  11. victoriapithecid

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