Whiggish

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• However, his final assessment was couched within a strongly Whiggish or presentist bias.

  Academic text (2018)

• But during the post-bellum period, the Republican Party had lost its sense of moral purpose and fallen into the mundane, Whiggish task of promoting the economic interests of the business classes.

  Academic text (2002)

• What happened to the Whiggish view of history?

  Blog text (27)

• The Whiggish Economics of Local Arts

  Academic text (1995)

• This reveals a somewhat Whiggish approach, as if we can discern a main stem of historical development that deserves our encouragement.

  Academic text (2002)

• The result has been a Whiggish fascination with traditional dynastic histories.

  Academic text (1997)

• Social history is a successor to Whiggish views of progress and to nationalist history, and this is one area where we may have outfaced the momentum of American middle-class culture.

  Academic text (1995)

• To rebut the Whiggish argument of arts as a tool to promote economic growth, the Gingrichians emphasize the negative impact on economic growth of the federal deficit.

  Academic text (1995)

• To its harshest critics abroad and at home, American Western Civ remains a Whiggish, Eurocentric sham of a course.

  Academic text (2005)

• We are bent more on studying specific groups or facets of social behavior or larger patterns of social change; a nationalist or Whiggish litmus test is not relevant to most of us.

  Academic text (1995)

Synonyms

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progressive

vsWhiggish

278 4.8

Supporting new social changes in politics to make society fairer

ties reform to a historical party viewpoint that treats progress as inevitable and positive

P

progressivist

vsWhiggish

1 7.6

Supporting new social or political ideas and changes

links reform to a historical party belief that progress is inevitable and good

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