English Explanatory Dictionary

Grundyism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. narrow and unintelligent conventionalism

Word forms

Grundyism

Etymology

From Grundy + -ism, after Mrs Grundy, a minor character in Thomas Morton's play Speed the Plough (1798) who came to personify the tyranny of conventional propriety.

Related words

Grundified Grundyist
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