Grundyism
Meaning
narrow and unintelligent conventionalism
Synonyms
beateria
pruderie
pudorEtymology
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.
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