Whiggism

[ hwig-iz-uhm, wig- ]

noun

1. the principles or practices of Whigs.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Whiggism¹

First recorded in 1660–70; Whig + -ism

Example Sentences

Whatever else we may think of Kuhn’s Structure of 1962, he killed Whiggism.

From Scientific American

While reading law and clerking under the famed Virginia lawyer George Wythe, Jefferson found his Whiggism — the belief, grounded in certain strains of English thought, that property and liberty were intertwined in a natural right against sovereign intrusion and restraint — growing radical.

From Salon

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

Viewed within this lens, the reanimating of the golem of materialist whiggism by Gen-X and Millennial progressives would certainly seem to call for a thorough philosophical critique which is beyond the ken of this short post.

From Forbes

Even the lips of Whiggism are sealed before it; and nothing is left but the confession that, in all their senseless clamor against our favorite and long-tried State bank system, the course of its enemies has been but the ebullition of disappointed ambition and peevish discontent.

From Project Gutenberg