whiggism

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[189] When Johnson was going to Auchinleck, Boswell begged him, in talking with his father, 'to avoid three topicks as to which they differed very widely; whiggism, presbyterianism, and -- Sir John Pringle.'

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  1. The principles of the whigs; whiggery. As if whiggism were an admirable cordial in the mass, though the several ingredients are rank poisons. Dryden, Vind. of Duke of Guise.

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