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grundyism
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grundyism
Grundyism \Grun"dy*ism\, n. Narrow and unintelligent conventionalism. -- Grun"dy*ist, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
grundyism
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.