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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
nonmodern \nonmodern\ adjective
1. not modern; of or characteristic of an earlier time. Opposite of {modern}. [Narrower terms: {antebellum}; {fogyish, mossgrown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud(prenominal), stodgy old-fashioned}; {medieval, mediaeval, gothic}; {old-time, quaint}; {unmodernized}; {victorian}; {old-fashioned, outmoded}; {old-world}] Also See: {old}, {past}. [WordNet 1.5]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Victorian \Vic*to"ri*an\, adjective Of or pertaining to the reign of Queen Victoria of England; as, the Victorian poets.
{Victorian period}. See {Dionysian period}, under {Dyonysian}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
Victorian
adjective
1: of or relating to Queen Victoria of Great Britain or to the age in which she ruled; "Victorian morals"
2: exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts" [syn: {priggish}, {prim}, {prissy}, {prudish}, {puritanical}, {square-toed}, {straitlaced}, {strait-laced}, {straightlaced}, {straight-laced}, {tight-laced}]
3: typical of the moral standards or conduct of the age of Queen Victoria
noun: a person who lived during the reign of Victoria
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
41 Moby Thesaurus words for "Victorian": Gothic, Quakerish, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic, bluenose, censorious, classical, demure, fossil, fossilized, genteel, goody-goody, grown old, hidebound, medieval, mid-Victorian, narrow, of other times, old maid, old-fashioned, old-maidish, old-world, overmodest, petrified, prig, priggish, prim, prissy, prude, prudish, puritan, puritanical, sanctimonious, smug, starchy, stiff-necked, straitlaced, stuffy, superannuated
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