Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The principles, methods, and practices of tories, in any sense; specifically , those of the British Tories.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The principles of the Tories.

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  • noun The political principles of the Tories.

Etymologies

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Tory +‎ -ism

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Examples

  • Toryism is a traditionalist political philosophy, which grew out of the Cavalier faction in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: February 18, 2010 2010

  • I fear the authentic voice of Toryism is to be found elsewhere:

    Chris Huhne on identity cards 2008

  • I fear the authentic voice of Toryism is to be found elsewhere:

    Archive 2008-09-01 2008

  • Shelley's conversations with Southey at this time would have major consequences for the rest of his career; imagining the nineteen-year-old radical visiting the author of Joan of Arc and Wat Tyler two years before Southey's appointment as poet laureate and finding him comfortably settled into Toryism is one of the keys to understanding Shelley's evolving relationship to first-generation romanticism.

    Young Shelley 1997

  • Toryism, which is a parasitic growth of mind, needs a relic to which it can cling, not a person.

    In a Green Shade A Country Commentary Maurice Hewlett 1892

  • Too bad that "Toryism" is a mental outlook rather than an inherited characteristics.

    A Modest Declaration - Anil Dash 2003

  • Radicalism shown by the men of highest education among the aristocratic classes themselves, the English Conservatives were delighted to find a man of great ability and striking eloquence, who seemed to have a religious conviction that "Toryism" was the only means of saving society and ensuring progress.

    The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) Various

  • Dana, of Groton, appears to have been suspected of "Toryism," and prints the following in the "Essex Gazette": --

    The Olden Time Series, Vol. 4: Quaint and Curious Advertisements Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts 1860

  • The only positive I see right now is that people are being rudely reminded what 'Toryism' is all about, stealing from the poor to benefit the rich.

    The Guardian World News Tony Benn 2011

  • The only positive I see right now is that people are being rudely reminded what 'Toryism' is all about, stealing from the poor to benefit the rich.

    The Guardian World News Tony Benn 2011

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