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Victorian values

British

plural noun

qualities considered to characterize the Victorian period, including enterprise and initiative and the importance of the family Compare Victorian

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Season 2 continues the wild exercise over 10 episodes, earnestly honoring Dickinson’s poetry by bringing it to the fore while bending Victorian values and period-piece conventions into pop art.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2021

To anyone who would listen, Thatcher lionised Hayek, promising to bring together his free-market philosophy with a revival of Victorian values: family, community, hard work.

From The Guardian • Aug. 18, 2017

In the Thatcher era, fogeys preached "Victorian values".

From The Guardian • Jul. 15, 2011

And it wasn’t Enron or the Iraq war that caused the breakup; it was her boyfriend’s snobbish parents, and that reflects Victorian values, not the new millennium.

From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2010

But if you are poor and sick, what then do Victorian values offer you?

From Time Magazine Archive

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