Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The principles of the whigs; whiggery.
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- noun The principles of the Whigs.
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- noun Principles, philosophy, methods of a
Whig .
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Examples
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The youth, therefore, he apprehended, might possibly require some little counteraction of the principles of modern whiggism, which he did not think very conducive to the loyalty and subordination of a young British sailor.
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 James Harrison
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Dictionary under Whiggism, gives only one quotation, namely, from Swift: 'I could quote passages from fifty pamphlets, wholly made up of whiggism and atheism.'
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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Motions hostile to the war were feebly supported, and Fox's jeers at British victories, and his declarations that the money spent on the war was plundered from the nation, that the cause of the Americans was "the cause of freedom, of the constitution, and of whiggism, and that he had in its origin wished it success," excited justifiable indignation.
The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration William Hunt 1886
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And as to the suggestion, constantly made at all times in our politics for the benefit of waverers, of the name of liberal-conservative, Lord John caustically observed that whig has the convenience of expressing in one syllable what liberal-conservative expresses in seven, and whiggism in two syllables what conservative progress expresses in six.
The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 John Morley 1880
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Lord Harrowby added that he was thrown into opposition and whiggism by the insult of Lord North.
The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 John Morley 1880
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You can conceive my astonishment when I saw that toryism was as openly professed as whiggism itself: however, at that time I believed that all good Americans were united together; that the confidence of congress in you was unbounded.
Memoirs Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de 1837
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As politicians, they are worthy of your regard, for they possess the genuine spirit of whiggism.
Memoirs of Aaron Burr Davis, Matthew L 1836
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Mr. Linwood sent Herbert (who had given him some trouble by early manifesting that love of self-direction which might have been the germe of his whiggism) to a Latin school in a country town near Boston.
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The club-houses and the tailors have done a good deal towards this, and so has whiggism and dissent; for they have destroyed distinctions.
The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Volume 01 Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830
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The club-houses and the tailors have done a good deal towards this, and so has whiggism and dissent; for they have destroyed distinctions.
The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Complete Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830
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