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
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
The king still called himself a Whig, yet he was reviving a system of absolutism which Whiggism, to do it justice, had long made impossible.
From History of the English People, Volume VII The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767 by Green, John Richard
A Whig stinks in his nostrils because to his eye modern Whiggism is 'a negation of all principles.'
From Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir
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