单词 | whiggism |
释义 | Whiggismn. historical after mid 19th cent. 1. The principles, policies, or practices of the Whigs (in various senses), esp. the Whig Party in Britain or the United States. Cf. Toryism n.In the late 19th cent. also occasionally in dated use with reference to Liberals and the Liberal Party, esp. to denote a more conservative form of Liberalism: see, e.g., quot. 1879. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > British party politics > [noun] > Whiggism Whiggism1681 Whiggery1682 1681 Several Weighty Quaeries conc. Heraclitus & Observator 2 Our Church-Warden never goes to Church without one in his Pocket, partly as an Antidote against Whiggism, but chiefly to read if the Ministers should chance to be Dull. 1702 D. Defoe 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. 1776 J. Adams Let. 21 July in 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. 1844 Punch 6 46/1 The velocity with which Lord Brougham turns round from Whiggism to Toryism. 1879 Farmer's Mag. Jan. 20/1 I am not concerned in a defence of Whiggism in contradistinction to Conservatism. 1900 Polit. Sci. Q. 15 545 His Whiggism was also of the hearty, generous, broad type of his patron, John Quincy Adams. 1998 A. Quinton Hume 48 His History of England, the first reasonably impartial history of England, which caused outrage to doctrinaire Whiggism. 2. A comment or argument that shows, espouses, or supports Whig principles or policies. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > British party politics > [noun] > Whiggism > a principle or tenet of Whiggism1790 1790 Times 13 Feb. (heading) Poetick Whiggisms by the Authors of the Rolliad. 1830 T. P. Thompson in Westm. Rev. Jan. 225 The whiggisms that are abroad upon this question of representation, are, that the poor do not know how to take care of themselves and of the state, and that the rich do. 1993 J. A. W. Gunn Beyond Liberty & Prop. 132 Beginning in 1704, he wrote a weekly paper called the Rehearsal, aimed at refuting the Whiggisms of John Tutchin's Observator. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022). < n.1681 |
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