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
English Whiggism, English liberalism, English nonconformity have made the world over anew.
From The Ifs of History by Joseph Edgar Chamberlin
As Keil was 'a very honest gentleman,' Hearne little suspected that his friend was possessed with the 'republican ill principles' and 'malignant temper' of Whiggism, and consequently was not very guarded in his talk.
From Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century by William Dunn Macray
And what is meant by Whiggism in Macaulay's mouth?
From Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) by Sir Leslie Stephen
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