Whiggism
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Whiggism
Example Sentences
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Whatever else we may think of Kuhn’s Structure of 1962, he killed Whiggism.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 14, 2019
This is the Achilles’ heel of radical Whiggism, and we know that it is its Achilles’ heel because one day it produces an Achilles, and the next a heel.
From The New Yorker ● May 8, 2017
Whiggism seemed to him to provide a satisfactory solution for all political problems when he was sending his first article to 'Knight's Magazine,' and when he was writing the last page of his 'History.'
From Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) by Sir Leslie Stephen
In like manner the ordinary citizen resents Whitman’s genuine democratic spirit, greatly preferring the sentimental Whiggism of Tennyson.
From The Vagabond in Literature by Arthur Rickett
Whiggism did not consist in the support of the power of Parliament or of any other power, but of the rights of the people.
From Lectures on the French Revolution by John Neville Figgis
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