Whigism example sentences
Whiggism
definition
- noun form of Whig
Whig
noun
Whig (noun) · Whigs (plural noun)
- a member of the British reforming and constitutional party that sought the supremacy of Parliament and was eventually succeeded in the 19th century by the Liberal Party.
- an American colonist who supported the American Revolution.
- a member of an American political party in the 19th century, succeeded by the Republicans.
- a 17th-century Scottish Presbyterian.
- denoting a historian who interprets history as the continuing and inevitable victory of progress over reaction.