Victorian values

plural noun

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

Example Sentences

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

‘In 1983, Margaret Thatcher swept to general election victory on a moralistic platform of “Victorian values”.

From The Guardian

“She pounded home the theme of moral responsibility through her books on Victorian values. She transferred that ethos to the United States — that welfare and the Great Society promoted values that were antithetical to the needs of the underclass and that measures taken to help the underclass were, in fact, hurting it.”

From Washington Post

“Sri Lanka was a matriarchal country before the colonists came and brought in their Christian and Victorian values,” said Rosanna Flamer-Caldera, founder of Equal Ground, a gay rights group in Sri Lanka.

From New York Times

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