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Whiggish

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Whig  (hwg, wg)
n.
1. A member of an 18th- and 19th-century British political party that was opposed to the Tories.
2. A supporter of the war against England during the American Revolution.
3. A 19th-century American political party formed to oppose the Democratic Party and favoring high tariffs and a loose interpretation of the Constitution.
[Probably short for Whiggamore, a member of a body of 17th-century Scottish Presbyterian rebels.]
Whigger·y n.
Whiggish adj.
Whiggism n.
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"There are whiles," said he, "when ye are altogether too canny and Whiggish to be company for a gentleman like me; but there come other whiles when ye show yoursel' a mettle spark; and it's then, David, that I love ye like a brother.
Kidnapped by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
I saw Farebrother yesterday-- he's Whiggish himself, hoists Brougham and Useful Knowledge; that's the worst I know of him;--and he says that Brooke is getting up a pretty strong party.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
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