Evolution of the conceptual characteristics of the victory concept in the XVIII and the XIX centuries

The purpose of the article is to describe the conceptual characteristics of the victory concept in the XVIII and the XIX centuries. The research objectives are to analyze the dictionary entries for the world “victory” or other representatives of the concept in the explanatory dictionaries of the Russian and Church Slavonic languages and to trace the development of the conceptual characteristics of the victory concept based on the data obtained. The relevance of the research lies in understanding the evolution of the primary signs of the studied concept and to the class of conceptual characteristics. There are no studies that analyze the conceptual characteristics of the victory concept in the XVIII and the XIX centuries, which determines the research novelty. Forty-two conceptual characteristics of the victory concept were identified during the analysis of five dictionaries of the said period. Ten characteristics not found in the dictionaries proved to be relevant for the period under study. This was confirmed by data from the Russian National Corpus. Overall, there were revealed 52 conceptual characteristics over the studied period.