Grundyism

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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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Grundyism (uncountable)

  1. narrow and unintelligent conventionalism

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