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词汇 Whiggish
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Definition of Whiggish in English:

Whiggish

adjective ˈwɪɡɪʃˈ(h)wɪɡɪʃ
historical
  • See Whig

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The final chapter, ‘Impossible History and the Politics of Hope,’ identifies ‘impossible’ as not imaginable within a Whiggish history of progressive development.
    • But Phillips sounds Whiggish indeed in regarding the three wars as building up to a global destiny.
    • Hall interpreted the political origins of the western states in the most strident of Whiggish sentiments and the relinquishment of Indian land rights in the self-justifying rhetoric of dispossession.
    • Indeed, in what seemed to be a throwback to nineteenth century Whiggish history, the viewing public were being sold a figure as being the greatest Briton.
    • Shelley was increasingly impatient with Whiggish parliamentary reform and compromise.

Definition of Whiggish in US English:

Whiggish

adjectiveˈ(h)wɪɡɪʃˈ(h)wiɡiSH
historical
  • See Whig

    Example sentencesExamples
    • But Phillips sounds Whiggish indeed in regarding the three wars as building up to a global destiny.
    • Indeed, in what seemed to be a throwback to nineteenth century Whiggish history, the viewing public were being sold a figure as being the greatest Briton.
    • Hall interpreted the political origins of the western states in the most strident of Whiggish sentiments and the relinquishment of Indian land rights in the self-justifying rhetoric of dispossession.
    • Shelley was increasingly impatient with Whiggish parliamentary reform and compromise.
    • The final chapter, ‘Impossible History and the Politics of Hope,’ identifies ‘impossible’ as not imaginable within a Whiggish history of progressive development.
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