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单词 whig party
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Whig Party
Whig Party n. now historical (originally) the political faction who supported the exclusion of James, Duke of York (later James II), from the succession to the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland on account of his Roman Catholicism during the late 1670s and 1680s (see sense A. 2a); (subsequently) the British political party which developed from this faction after the Glorious Revolution (1688) and was eventually succeeded by the Liberal Party in the mid 19th cent. (see sense A. 3); (later also) an American political party opposed to the Democrats between the 1830s and 1850s (see sense A. 4b).
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1683 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 279 Commenting on several proceedings of those called the whig party.
1695 R. Ferguson Whether Preserving Protestant Relig. 31 The Whig Party is, generally speaking, a compound of the Atheistical of all Opinions and Perswasions whatsoever.
1795 Parl. Reg. 1781–96 XLII. 472 An intention of the First Lord of the Treasury to degrade and annihilate the whig party.
1844 St. Louis Reveille 16 Nov. 2/2 The Whig party of New York..has united its fortunes with that of the nativists.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 278 The violent reaction which had laid the Whig party prostrate.
1980 Albion 12 166 He emerged as the leader of the Whig party in the House of Commons in the spring of 1830.
2006 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 1 Apr. a1 Jackson and his opponent, Sen. Henry Clay of the Whig Party, vigorously debated the merits of the Second Bank of the United States.
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