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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

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

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

Whiggism seemed to him to provide a satisfactory solution for all political problems when he was sending his first article to 'Knight's Magazine,' and when he was writing the last page of his 'History.'

From Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) by Sir Leslie Stephen

Latitudinarians, Low Churchmen, and Dissenters, did not know what to make of a Whiggism in state-politics which was conjoined with the strongest form of ecclesiastical Toryism.

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

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