Definition of Whiggish in English:
Whiggish
adjective ˈwɪɡɪʃˈ(h)wɪɡɪʃ
historical See Whig
Example sentencesExamples
- The final chapter, ‘Impossible History and the Politics of Hope,’ identifies ‘impossible’ as not imaginable within a Whiggish history of progressive development.
- But Phillips sounds Whiggish indeed in regarding the three wars as building up to a global destiny.
- Hall interpreted the political origins of the western states in the most strident of Whiggish sentiments and the relinquishment of Indian land rights in the self-justifying rhetoric of dispossession.
- Indeed, in what seemed to be a throwback to nineteenth century Whiggish history, the viewing public were being sold a figure as being the greatest Briton.
- Shelley was increasingly impatient with Whiggish parliamentary reform and compromise.
Definition of Whiggish in US English:
Whiggish
adjectiveˈ(h)wɪɡɪʃˈ(h)wiɡiSH
historical See Whig
Example sentencesExamples
- But Phillips sounds Whiggish indeed in regarding the three wars as building up to a global destiny.
- Indeed, in what seemed to be a throwback to nineteenth century Whiggish history, the viewing public were being sold a figure as being the greatest Briton.
- Hall interpreted the political origins of the western states in the most strident of Whiggish sentiments and the relinquishment of Indian land rights in the self-justifying rhetoric of dispossession.
- Shelley was increasingly impatient with Whiggish parliamentary reform and compromise.
- The final chapter, ‘Impossible History and the Politics of Hope,’ identifies ‘impossible’ as not imaginable within a Whiggish history of progressive development.