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Excessive or affected modesty
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grundyism
Word definitions for grundyism in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grundyism \Grun"dy*ism\, n. Narrow and unintelligent conventionalism. -- Grun"dy*ist , n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1836, from Mrs. Grundy, prudish character in Thomas Morton's 1798 play "Speed the Plow," play and playwright otherwise now forgotten, but the line "What would Mrs. Grundy say?" became proverbial.
Usage examples of grundyism.
Grundyism, less Comstockery, and, at the same time, less dirty Don-Juanism, less of that curiously malignant and vengeful love-making so characteristic of the debauchee under a Christian dispensation.