Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to whigs, in any application of the name; partaking of the principles of whigs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to Whigs; partaking of, or characterized by, the principles of Whigs.
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- adjective Characteristic of a
Whig ;liberal .
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Examples
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They are, as historians like to say, very "whiggish"; they usually see the past simply as an anticipation of our present, and thus they tend to hold people in the past responsible for a future that was in fact inconceivable to them.
An Exchange on James Madison Matthews, Richard K. 1996
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The confrontation between the metropolitan, whiggish minority around him who think like him and the majority of his party who don't is beginning.
Tory press defenders of Middle England rail against the toffs Peter Preston 2010
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Cameron and his whiggish friends face a rough ride from the likes of Heffer and Oborne
Tory press defenders of Middle England rail against the toffs Peter Preston 2010
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I think the early Meiji — which is a period of experimentation, struggle and drama — makes more sense if you observe the Tokugawa-Meiji transition from the Tokugawa side rather than as the whiggish prelude to Imperialism, etc.
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I think the early Meiji — which is a period of experimentation, struggle and drama — makes more sense if you observe the Tokugawa-Meiji transition from the Tokugawa side rather than as the whiggish prelude to Imperialism, etc.
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It was viewing the Norman triumphalism of the Tapestry in Bayeux, however, that led me to question the whiggish assumption that the Norman conquest was - in the immortal words of 1066 And All That - "a good thing".
October 1066 Burke's Corner 2009
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It was viewing the Norman triumphalism of the Tapestry in Bayeux, however, that led me to question the whiggish assumption that the Norman conquest was - in the immortal words of 1066 And All That - "a good thing".
Archive 2009-10-01 Burke's Corner 2009
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His source-documented presentation of a religious transformation that was forced on the people from the top down goes directly against the whiggish junk-istory we've been force-fed for so may centuries.
The Myth of Lady Jane elena maria vidal 2009
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I think the early Meiji — which is a period of experimentation, struggle and drama — makes more sense if you observe the Tokugawa-Meiji transition from the Tokugawa side rather than as the whiggish prelude to Imperialism, etc.
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I think the early Meiji — which is a period of experimentation, struggle and drama — makes more sense if you observe the Tokugawa-Meiji transition from the Tokugawa side rather than as the whiggish prelude to Imperialism, etc.
fbharjo commented on the word whiggish
Is it a psuedo-palindrome or justice in the whey?
September 7, 2011
fbharjo commented on the word whiggish
Off Corsica , of course
September 7, 2011