Get to know Whiggish better with 6 real example sentences, the meaning.
Whiggish in a sentence
Whiggish meaning
- Characteristic of a Whig; liberal.
- Characterized by a belief in inevitable progress, and tending to evaluate the past by the standards of the present; see Whig history.
Using Whiggish
- The main meaning on this page is: Characteristic of a Whig; liberal. | Characterized by a belief in inevitable progress, and tending to evaluate the past by the standards of the present; see Whig history.
Context around Whiggish
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 5 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Whiggish
- In this selection, "whiggish" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, proclaimed, british, brand, political and traditions stand out and add context to how "whiggish" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include all proclaimed whiggish political views and highlighted his whiggish willingness to. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "whiggish" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with whiggish
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
His 'Whiggish convictions' are spelled out in his first chapter: I shall relate how the new settlement was. (18 words)
Gandhi took Gokhale's liberal approach based on British Whiggish traditions and transformed it to make it look wholly Indian. (20 words)
Lincoln's success depended on his reputation as a moderate on the slavery issue, and his strong support for Whiggish programs of internal improvements and the protective tariff. (28 words)
A version of Edmund Ludlow ’s Memoirs, re-written by John Toland to excise the radical Puritanical elements and replace them with a Whiggish brand of republicanism, presented the Cromwellian Protectorate as a military tyranny. (35 words)
In the South, they stressed that he was a Louisiana slaveholder, while in the North they highlighted his Whiggish willingness to defer to Congress on major issues (which he subsequently did not do). (33 words)
Even the Whigs ceased to be an identifiable party, and Parliament was dominated by competing political connections, which all proclaimed Whiggish political views, or by independent backbenchers unattached to any particular group. (32 words)
Example sentences (6)
A version of Edmund Ludlow ’s Memoirs, re-written by John Toland to excise the radical Puritanical elements and replace them with a Whiggish brand of republicanism, presented the Cromwellian Protectorate as a military tyranny.
Even the Whigs ceased to be an identifiable party, and Parliament was dominated by competing political connections, which all proclaimed Whiggish political views, or by independent backbenchers unattached to any particular group.
Gandhi took Gokhale's liberal approach based on British Whiggish traditions and transformed it to make it look wholly Indian.
His 'Whiggish convictions' are spelled out in his first chapter: I shall relate how the new settlement was.
In the South, they stressed that he was a Louisiana slaveholder, while in the North they highlighted his Whiggish willingness to defer to Congress on major issues (which he subsequently did not do).
Lincoln's success depended on his reputation as a moderate on the slavery issue, and his strong support for Whiggish programs of internal improvements and the protective tariff.