NOUN
- a period in British history during the reign of Queen Victoria in the 19th century; her character and moral standards restored the prestige of the British monarchy but gave the era a prudish reputation
How To Use Victorian age In A Sentence
- In the Victorian age, the theatre was the home of lurid melodrama for the masses. Times, Sunday Times
- The son of a yeoman farmer, he was one of those remarkable men of the Victorian age.
- Here Maury's chronometrical sea science intimates the degree to which the chronometer had come, in the Victorian age, to embody nothing less than rationality itself.
- Fraser claims to hate ‘the modern world’ and would doubtless prefer to have lived in the Victorian age.
- The Victorian Age is often boasted of as an age of progress.
- A rare survivor from the Victorian age, the gardens have been returned to their heyday and are full of spectacular spring bulbs.
- Here Maury's chronometrical sea science intimates the degree to which the chronometer had come, in the Victorian age, to embody nothing less than rationality itself.
- The two aunts, originally meant to be stodgy and throwbacks to the Victorian age, come across immediately as warm, lovable eccentrics.
- The Victorian age was supposed to have been temperate, prudish, serious and industrious, rather like the good Queen herself.
- Yet by the end of the nineteenth century - the apogee of the Victorian Age - the moral justification for the empire and the scientific knowledge of the effects of opium use could no longer ensure that this drug trade would go unchallenged.
