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Toryism|ˈtɔərɪɪz(ə)m|
Also 7–8 Torism.
[f. as prec. + -ism.]
The principles, practices, and methods of Tories: spec. a. those of the British Tory party; Conservatism.
1682in Westm. Gaz. 22 Jan. (1909) 2/3 [The Loyal London Mercury declared that it would not go with either] Whigism or Torism. 1711Medley No. 24. 279 Put Torism instead of it, and it sits exactly in all its Parts. 1713(title) Torism and Trade can never agree. 1735–8Bolingbroke On Parties ii. Wks. 1809 III. 47 An inquiry into the rise and progress of our late parties; or a short history of toryism and whiggism from their cradle to their grave. 1786Mrs. Piozzi Anecd. Johnson 40 Of Mr. Johnson's toryism the world has long been witness. 1791Boswell Johnson 22 Mar. an. 1776, I felt all my Toryism glow in this old capital of Staffordshire. Ibid. 3 June an. 1784, Oxford, that magnificent and venerable seat of Learning, Orthodoxy, and Toryism. c1832Borrow in Knapp Life, etc. (1899) I. xiv. 144 The chief reason for Toryism, a reason sufficient by itself, is that within it are comprised love of country and pride of country. 1862Knight Pop. Hist. Eng. VIII. xxix. 528 The principle of ultra-Toryism. 1886T. E. Kebbel Hist. Toryism viii. 335 Lord Beaconsfield carried Toryism into the next stage. Ibid. 337 The Toryism of the future must be popular Toryism or nothing. 1895Oman Hist. Eng. xlii. 709 Disraeli, seated firmly in power, was able to display the characteristics of the ‘New Toryism’. 1910S. J. Low in Encycl. Brit. VI. 346/2 He was actively spreading the gospel of democratic Toryism in a series of platform campaigns. Ibid., In 1884 the struggle between stationary and progressive Toryism came to a head, and terminated in favour of the latter. 1913F. E. Smith in Daily Express 12 Feb. 2/4 Not the least potent method of preserving it [the State] is to link the conception of State Toryism with the practice of Social Reform.
b. of the American Tories or Loyalists at the War of Independence: see Tory n. 4.
1777J. Adams Diary 18 Sept., We are yet in Philadelphia, that mass of cowardice and Toryism. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. III. ciii. 468 Because the Anglican Clergy were prone to Toryism (as attachment to the British connection was called).
c. Applied generally to principles analogous to those of English Toryism: cf. Tory n. 5.
1832Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) II. 7 Why will nobody re-write the Greek and Roman histories, and give us an insight into the Toryism of antiquity? 1837Ibid. IV. 367 Toryism..is not a thing of modern date, but goes back to the earliest histories. 1837Arnold Let. 3 Mar., in Life & Corr. (1845) II. 79 If I dared, I would put in a word for ‘As in præsenti’, perhaps even for ‘Propria quæ maribus’. Is not this a laudable specimen of Toryism? |