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
Macaulay was not only a typical Whig, but the prophet of Whiggism to his generation.
From Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir
Its degenerate successor, Whiggism, had no principles of value, and only lagged in the rear of the Democratic advance.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 by Various
Whiggism seemed to him the ne plus ultra of progress: the pure essence of political wisdom.
From Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir
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