neo-Victoriann.adj.
/ˌniːə(ʊ)vɪkˈtɔːrɪən/, U.S. /ˈˌnioʊvɪkˈtɔriən/ A. n.
Originally: a person living in the latter or most recent part of the Victorian period. Later: a person whose values, attitudes, or behaviour hark back to, or are reminiscent or suggestive of, those of the Victorian era.
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1916 A. Bennett These Twain i. viii. 108 Whereas the old Victorians lived in the future.., the neo-Victorians lived careless in the present.
1929 J. Galsworthy Mod. Comedy p. x Such subsidiary neo-Victorians as the self-righteous Mr. Danby.
1986 Times 18 Apr. 14 St John-Stevas is..a neo-Victorian.
2002 Scotl. on Sunday (Nexis) 24 Mar. 8 Whatever the neo-Victorians might say, there is nothing in Blasted to touch the shocking ambiguity and implicit misogyny of Blier's suicide.
B. adj.
Resembling, reviving, or reminiscent of, the Victorian era.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [adjective] > Victorian
Victorian1839
early Victorian1871
pre-Victorian1887
middle Victorian1896
post-Victorian1912
neo-Victorian1940
1940 R. Graves & A. Hodge Long Week-end xx. 352 The similarity between ‘objets trouvés’..and the neo-Victorian knick-knack collecting habit.
1959 Listener 11 June 1031/2 The neo-Victorian Age is upon us. The Law Courts have become a shrine for the Betjemanites.
1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 28 Aug. g1 Blackboards..with neo-Victorian frames.
1992 Time 6 Jan. 82/1 The jaunty bits (the eyebrow dormers and the tower) mitigate any neo-Victorian lugubriousness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.adj.1916