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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

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

The Scottish philosophy therefore 'was in philosophy what Whiggism was in politics.

From Studies in Literature and History by Miller, John O.

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

English Whiggism, English liberalism, English nonconformity have made the world over anew.

From The Ifs of History by Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar

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