Toryism

[tawr-ee-iz-uhm, tohr-]

noun

1. the act or fact of being a Tory.

2. the principles, beliefs, and practices of Tories.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Toryism¹

Tory + -ism

Example Sentences

Thomas Jefferson described this partisan newspaper, The Gazette of the United States, as 'a paper of pure Toryism … disseminating the doctrines of monarchy, aristocracy, and the exclusion of the people.'

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There's an 1886 "History of Toryism" which barely mentions Burke.

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It will have escaped none of them that Michael Heseltine’s one-nation Toryism has always been based upon a commitment “to intervene before breakfast, before lunch, before tea and before dinner”.

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He suggested that she was the origin of his one nation Toryism.

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The Grenfell fire will endure as a reminder of a social order built by Toryism which prioritises money over human life.

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