Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - whig
Whig
whig
n. hist. 1 Polit. a member of the British reforming and constitutional party that after 1688 sought the supremacy of Parliament and was eventually succeeded in the 19th c. by the Liberal Party (opp. TORY 2). 2 a 17th-c. Scottish Presbyterian. 3 US a a supporter of the American Revolution. b a member of an American political party in the 19th c., succeeded by the Republicans. Derivatives Whiggery n. Whiggish adj. Whiggism n. Etymology: prob. a shortening of Sc. whiggamer, -more, nickname of 17th-c. Sc. rebels, f. whig to drive + MARE(1)
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noun Etymology: short for ~gamore, member of a Scottish group that marched to Edinburgh in 1648 to oppose the court party Date: 1702 a member or supporter of a major British political group of the late 17th through early 19th centuries seeking to limit the royal authority and increase parliamentary power, an American favoring independence from Great Britain during the American Revolution, a member or supporter of an American political party formed about 1834 in opposition to the Jacksonian Democrats, associated chiefly with manufacturing, commercial, and financial interests, and succeeded about 1854 by the Republican party, ~ adjective ~gism noun ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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