mid-Victorian

[ mid-vik-tawr-ee-uhn, -tohr- ]

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of the middle portion (about 1850 to 1890) of the reign of Queen Victoria (reigned 1837–1901) in England:

   mid-Victorian writers.

noun

1. a person, as a writer, belonging to the mid-Victorian time.
2. a person of mid-Victorian tastes, standards, ideas, etc.

mid-Victorian

adjective

1. history of or relating to the middle period of the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901)

noun

1. a person of the mid-Victorian era

Other Words From

• mid-Vic·tori·an·ism noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of mid-Victorian¹

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

It was a room without beauty, merely walls, repapered once every twenty years, and furniture of the mid-Victorian era.

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Now death by the mid-Victorian was considered almost as undesirable an element in society as sex itself.

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But to Bierce's mind, "noble and nude and antique," this mid-Victorian draping and bedecking of "unpleasant truths" was abhorrent.

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His was the dominant personality in Botany of the early and mid-Victorian era.

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Next to the meats, out on a table before a second-hand book store is romantic, old "St. Elmo" of mid-Victorian fame.

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