mid-Victorianadj.n.

Brit.

/ˌmɪdvɪkˈtɔːrɪən/, U.S.

/ˌmɪdvɪkˈtɔriən/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mid adj., Victorian adj.²

Etymology: < mid adj. + Victorian adj.² Compare earlier early Victorian adj. and n. at early adj. and n. Compounds 2, middle Victorian n. and adj. at middle adj. and n. Compounds 1a.

A. adj.

Belonging to or characteristic of the middle of the period of Queen Victoria's reign.

ΚΠ

1898 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 95/1 That smug Mid-Victorian age, which was so prim, so inartistic, so suburban.

1901 F. H. Burnett Making of Marchioness ii. xiv. 280 ‘She was so respectable?’ ‘She was even a little Mid-Victorian, dear Mary.’

1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Feb. 101/2 The mid-Victorian novelists..thought of it [sc. Oxford] as a moral testing-ground or ‘a vale of soul-making’.

1969 H. Perkin Key Profession iii. 81 The mid-Victorian reforms [of Oxford University] which reduced the power of the ‘Heads of Houses’.

1991 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 7 Mar. 38/4 Throughout his librettos, Gilbert's delight in disguise and mistaken identity showed his indebtedness to mid-Victorian tradition.

B. n.

A person of the mid-Victorian period. Cf. earlier middle Victorian n. and adj. at middle adj. and n. Compounds 1a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [noun] > Victorian era > one who lived in

early Victorian1871

Victorian1876

middle Victorian1896

post-Victorian1914

mid-Victorian1918

1918 Philos. Rev. 27 324 He accompanies his excellent defense of the Socratic principle with..self-concious swagger of extreme modernity and the inevitable contemptuous flings at benighted mid-Victorians.

1927 M. Sadleir Trollope 3 To the critical eye of Edwardian and Georgian enlightenment the mid-Victorians have appeared smug and hypocritical and selfish.

1965 N. St. John-Stevas in W. Bagehot Coll. Works I. 79 Bagehot was never in the least infected by the vulgar No Popery of the mid-Victorians.

1992 19th-cent. Lit. 47 126 These characteristics were also prominent features in what the mid-Victorians termed ‘manliness’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mid-victorian
释义	mid-Victorianadj.n. Brit. /ˌmɪdvɪkˈtɔːrɪən/, U.S. /ˌmɪdvɪkˈtɔriən/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mid adj., Victorian adj.² Etymology: < mid adj. + Victorian adj.² Compare earlier early Victorian adj. and n. at early adj. and n. Compounds 2, middle Victorian n. and adj. at middle adj. and n. Compounds 1a. A. adj. Belonging to or characteristic of the middle of the period of Queen Victoria's reign. ΚΠ 1898 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 95/1 That smug Mid-Victorian age, which was so prim, so inartistic, so suburban. 1901 F. H. Burnett Making of Marchioness ii. xiv. 280 ‘She was so respectable?’ ‘She was even a little Mid-Victorian, dear Mary.’ 1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Feb. 101/2 The mid-Victorian novelists..thought of it [sc. Oxford] as a moral testing-ground or ‘a vale of soul-making’. 1969 H. Perkin Key Profession iii. 81 The mid-Victorian reforms [of Oxford University] which reduced the power of the ‘Heads of Houses’. 1991 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 7 Mar. 38/4 Throughout his librettos, Gilbert's delight in disguise and mistaken identity showed his indebtedness to mid-Victorian tradition. B. n. A person of the mid-Victorian period. Cf. earlier middle Victorian n. and adj. at middle adj. and n. Compounds 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [noun] > Victorian era > one who lived in early Victorian1871 Victorian1876 middle Victorian1896 post-Victorian1914 mid-Victorian1918 1918 Philos. Rev. 27 324 He accompanies his excellent defense of the Socratic principle with..self-concious swagger of extreme modernity and the inevitable contemptuous flings at benighted mid-Victorians. 1927 M. Sadleir Trollope 3 To the critical eye of Edwardian and Georgian enlightenment the mid-Victorians have appeared smug and hypocritical and selfish. 1965 N. St. John-Stevas in W. Bagehot Coll. Works I. 79 Bagehot was never in the least infected by the vulgar No Popery of the mid-Victorians. 1992 19th-cent. Lit. 47 126 These characteristics were also prominent features in what the mid-Victorians termed ‘manliness’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1898
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