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
He was a zealous Hanoverian, and a favourite with Queen Anne in spite of his Whiggism.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various
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
In 1834 his hostility to Whiggism was becoming more pronounced, and a tenderness for some Tory doctrines more discernible.
From Studies in Contemporary Biography by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount
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