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Whiggery|ˈhwɪgərɪ|
[f. Whig n.2 + -ery.]
Whig principles or practice; Whiggism. (Mostly hostile or contemptuous.)
1682T. Flatman Heraclitus Ridens No. 66 (1713) II. 161 What other Whiggery have you? 1714G. Lockhart Mem. Scot. (ed. 3) 128 The first of these was..after the Revolution, raised to the Bench upon Account of his Whiggery and Disloyalty. 1814Scott Wav. xxx, That's a' your Whiggery, and your presbytery, ye cut-lugged, graning carles! 1843E. Quincy Life of W. L. Garrison iii. 92 Great opposition was made to David Lee Child on account of his bias towards Whiggery. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. ii. I. 275 Noisy zealots, whose only claim to promotion was that they were always drinking confusion to Whiggery, and lighting bonfires to burn the Exclusion Bill. 1876N. Amer. Rev. CXXIII. 213 Whiggery meant sound views on the tariff. 1885Courthope Lib. Movem. Engl. Lit. ii. 50 Whiggery, in Burke's days, meant simply adherence to the principles of the Revolution of 1688. 1908Sat. Rev. 9 May 586/2 We must congratulate Mr. Asquith on disregarding the shrill cries of antiquated whiggery.
b. fig. Rebellion. (Cf. Whig n.2 3 b.)
1826Galt Last of Lairds i. 3 When the day happened to be wet, the poultry were accustomed to murmur their sullen and envious whiggery against the same weather [etc.]. |