Whiggism

American  

[hwig-iz-uhm, wig-] / ˈʰwɪg ɪz əm, ˈwɪg- /

Also Whiggery

noun

1. the principles or practices of Whigs.

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Etymology

Origin of Whiggism

First recorded in 1660–70; Whig + -ism

Example Sentences

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 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 Figgis, John Neville

Moreover, there was abundant matter, capable of being treated consistently with either Whiggism or Toryism, in the social foibles and peculiarities of the day, as we see in the Tatler and the Spectator.

From The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays by Masson, David

Whiggism was extinguished; the Whig of the present day has no more resemblance to the Whig of Fox's day, than the squatter has to the planter.

From Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 by Various