Definition of Whiggish. Meaning of Whiggish. Synonyms of Whiggish

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Definition of Whiggish

Whiggish
Whiggish Whig"gish, a. Of or pertaining to Whigs; partaking of, or characterized by, the principles of Whigs.

Meaning of Whiggish from wikipedia

- ****ociated Protestantism with liberal views of liberty". The terms "whig" and "whiggish" are now used broadly, becoming "universal descriptors for all progressive...
- inside the system. Gandhi took Gokhale's liberal approach based on British Whiggish traditions and transformed it to make it look Indian. Gandhi took leadership...
- was dominated by competing political connections, which all proclaimed Whiggish political views, or by independent backbenchers unattached to any particular...
- was resolved with a backroom deal whereby both Southern Democrats and Whiggish Republican businessmen acquiesced to Hayes's election on the condition...
- more than 100 people. Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859) presented his Whiggish interpretation of English history as an upward progression always leading...
- fielding a very large army and navy. The Republicans in Washington had a Whiggish vision of an industrial nation, with great cities, efficient factories...
- services, both private and political, to Robert Walpole and his ruling Whiggish government under the new Hanoverian monarchy. The first major conflict...
- McKinley household was, like many from Ohio's Western Reserve, steeped in Whiggish and abolitionist sentiment, the latter based on the family's staunch Methodist...
- chief principle of the Roundheads in an earlier generation. The great Whiggish achievement was the Bill of Rights of 1689. It made Parliament, not the...
- were eligible to vote but not to hold office. In most states, the more Whiggish Republicans fought for control with the more Radical Republicans and their...