Victorianly

English

Etymology

From Victorian +‎ -ly.

Adverb

Victorianly (comparative more Victorianly, superlative most Victorianly)

  1. In a Victorian style or manner.
    • 2011 October 17, Adam Gopnik, “Broken Kingdom”, in The New Yorker‎:
      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.
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