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Whiggism

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

noun

  1. the principles or practices of Whigs.


Etymology

Origin of Whiggism

First recorded in 1660–70; Whig + -ism


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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 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 Sir Leslie Stephen

Don't tell my mother! but privately, my dear colonel, I seem to discover in myself traces of Whiggism.

From A Red Wallflower by Susan Warner

It was, as I have said, in philosophy what Whiggism was in politics.

From The English Utilitarians, Volume I. by Sir Leslie Stephen

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