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Victorian Definition


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Victorian
adj
    1. Relating to or characteristic of Queen Victoria or the period of her reign (1837‐1901).
    2a. Said of attitudes or values: typical of the strictness, prudery or conventionality associated with this period;
    2b. Said of attitudes or values: typical of the hypocrisy and bigotry often thought to underlie these values.
noun
    1. Someone who lived during this period.
    2. Someone with Victorian attitudes or values.
Derivative: Victorianism
noun
    Etymology: 1830s.



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