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Whiggism|ˈhwɪgɪz(ə)m|
Also 7–8 Whigism.
[f. as prec. + -ism.]
The principles, tenets, or methods of the Whigs; moderate or antiquated Liberalism. (Opposed to Toryism.)
1666Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1666–7 (1864) 415 Extract of a Scotch letter, by M. L'Estrange; whiggism and treason. 1683Wood Life (O.H.S.) III. 6 Sept., To expell Mr. Parkinson from the University for whiggisme. 1702De Foe Shortest Way with Dissenters 15 We can never enjoy a settled uninterrupted Union and Tranquility in this Nation, till the Spirit of Whiggisme, Faction, and Schism is melted down like the Old-Money. 1776J. Adams Let. to Sergeant 21 July, Wks. 1854 IX. 425 But when persons come to see there is greater danger to their persons and property from toryism than whiggism, the same avarice and pusillanimity will make them whigs. 1813W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. LXXII. 275 An account of the Kit-cat club, throws light on the history of Whiggism. 1844Disraeli Coningsby vi. iii, I look upon an Orangeman..as..the only professor and practiser of unadulterated Whiggism. 1844Punch VI. 46/1 The velocity with which Lord Brougham turns round from Whiggism to Toryism. 1880Green Hist. Eng. People IV. ix. i. 220 The King [sc. Geo. III] still called himself a Whig, yet he was reviving a system of absolutism which Whiggism..had long made impossible.
b. (with pl.) A Whiggish principle or tenet.
1830Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) I. 222 The whiggisms that are abroad upon this question of representation. |