Etymology
Origin of Toryism
Example Sentences
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“A mythologized Disraeli,” Ms. Jones writes, “provided political, literary and intellectual means by which Toryism could be positioned against an increasingly demonized ‘Victorian Liberalism.’”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Renewal, a think-tank founded in 2013 to promote working-class Toryism, is emerging as the new regime’s brains trust.
From Economist ● Aug. 4, 2016
But it's odd to find Byrne insisting that Austen shared the "paternalistic Christian Toryism" of her clan.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 17, 2013
His brand of Toryism became known as "One Nation".
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2012
To minister by the pen to the occasions of Whiggism and Toryism was, therefore, the main business of the wits both in prose and verse.
From The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays by Masson, David
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