单词 | toryism |
释义 | Toryismn. 1. ΚΠ 1681 Heraclitus Ridens 15 Mar. 1/1 A Church of England-man maintaining the necessity of the words As by Law now Established, which you know is Tantivyism and Toryism in the highest degree. 1682 J. Evans Moderation stated in Serm. before Lord Mayor 23 What some men esteem great falshoods, and call Toryism and Popery, are really as true as Gospel. 1685 R. Clipsham Grand expedient for suppressing Popery Examined iv. 55 If..the Sermon have any smatch of malignancy (so they called Loyalty in the Days of old) or as the new Word is, Toryism, away they run as if they were frighted out of their Wits, or the Preacher had vented some damnable Heresy. 1692 E. Ludlow Let. from Gen. Ludlow to Dr. Hollingworth p. vii 'Tis amazing that Men (even of the highest stamp of Toryism) should have Front enough to deny it. b. The principles, policies, or practices of the Tory Party or (later) the British or Canadian Conservative Party.Developing gradually out of sense 1a as the Tories and Whigs took shape as political parties in the decade following the accession of William III & Mary II (1689). ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > British party politics > [noun] > Toryism or conservatism Toryism1693 conservatism1832 conservativeness1832 conservativism1834 Toriness1890 1693 Dialogue betwixt Whig & Tory 22 Your Education in Toryism, your Obligations to King Iames, and, which is more than both, your present Hopes from him, will make you so averse to this Government, that no Favour, no Courtship can engage you heartily in its Interests. 1713 (title) Torism and trade can never agree. 1735 Visct. Bolingbroke Diss. upon Parties (ed. 2) 12 An Enquiry into the Rise and Progress of our late Parties; or a short History of Toryism and Whiggism from their Cradle to their Grave. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1784 II. 496 Oxford, that magnificent and venerable seat of Learning, Orthodoxy, and Toryism. c1832 G. Borrow in W. I. Knapp Life G. Borrow (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. 1886 T. E. Kebbel Hist. Toryism viii. 337 The Toryism of the future must be popular Toryism or nothing. 1968 Listener 6 June 713/2 Noblesse oblige Toryism..is giving way to..managerial Conservatism. 2000 Times 30 Aug. i. 16/1 Since the 18th century, a prejudice in favour of established institutions and against foreign entanglements has been the defining core of Toryism. c. The principles and practices of those who supported the British cause during the period of the American Revolution and War of Independence. See Tory n. 4. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > support of British side in War of Independence Toryism1776 1776 N. Cooke Let. 23 Apr. in G. Washington Papers (1991) Revolutionary War Ser. IV. 111 I have no Doubt it will put a total End to Toryism in this Colony. 1777 J. Adams Diary 18 Sept. (1961) II. 263 We are yet in Philadelphia, that Mass of Cowardice and Toryism. 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. III. ciii. 468 Because the Anglican Clergy were prone to Toryism (as attachment to the British connection was called). 1995 Pennsylvania Hist. 62 332 In addition to opportunism and fear of retaliation by the seemingly unconquerable British, toryism was also caused by ethnic, religious, or group loyalties. d. More generally: an outlook or ideology with similar principles to those of the Tories (esp. in sense Tory n. 3b); conservatism. Often somewhat depreciative, implying resistance to change. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > maintaining state or condition > [noun] > resistance to change reservancy1630 Toryism1786 unprogressiveness1829 conservatism1832 fossilism1861 stand-pattism1903 passéism1943 Luddism1967 Ludditism1971 1786 A. Seward Lett. 15 Nov. (1811) I. 213 There is toryism in science as well as in government. 1832 T. P. Thompson in Westm. Rev. Jan. 5 Why will nobody re-write the Greek and Roman histories, and give us an insight into the Toryism of antiquity? 1837 T. Arnold 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? 1923 H. L. Mencken Let. 17 Aug. in H. L. Mencken & S. Haardt Mencken & Sara (1987) 88 Our aim, in brief, is to set up an organ of educated Toryism, avoiding the chasing of Liberal butterflies on the one hand and the worship of Judge Gary on the other. 2012 Wisconsin State Jrnl. (Nexis) 5 Feb. e2 If Toryism has a contemporary face, it is that of Mitt Romney. 2. A comment or argument that shows, espouses, or supports Tory principles or policies. ΚΠ 1792 B. Boothby Observ. Appeal from New to Old Whigs 117 He exposes some of the toryisms of The Reflections with a good deal of spirit and success in his rough plebian way. 1851 T. Carlyle Life J. Sterling ii. iv. 130 In the inexorable jingle of that shrill voice, all manner of Toryisms, superstitions. 1926 Citizen (Gloucester) 18 Nov. 9/3 I will now confine myself to four or five of the Bishop's most glaring errors and ‘Toryisms’. 2013 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 17 Aug. 26 As a writer, he can be wacky, loose with facts and too often given to tiresome knee-jerk Toryisms such as the British Leyland crack. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022). < n.1681 |
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