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单词 whiggification
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Whiggificationn.

Brit. /ˌwɪɡᵻfᵻˈkeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌ(h)wɪɡəfəˈkeɪʃən/
Forms: 1800s– Whiggification, 2000s– Whigification (rare).
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Whiggify v., -fication suffix.
Etymology: < Whiggify v.: see -fication suffix. Compare slightly earlier Toryfication n.
Usually somewhat depreciative. historical after mid 19th cent.
The action or process of making someone or something Whiggish in character, or sympathetic to Whig principles. Cf. slightly earlier Toryfication n.
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Whiggification1832
1832 J. Wilson in Blackwood's Mag. Sept. 387 We were all along against the whiggification of the Tory System.
1849 Belfast News Let. 22 May Clamours for a further Whiggification of the House of Lords.
2002 J. Spence in D. G. Boyce & A. O'Day Defenders of Union (new ed.) 77 Butt's Faustian tale further evinced an Irish Tory's fear of the Whiggification of Dublin.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).
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