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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

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

Moreover, there was abundant matter, capable of being treated consistently with either Whiggism or Toryism, in the social foibles and peculiarities of the day, as we see in the Tatler and the Spectator.

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

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

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