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US
/ˈhwɪɡ, ˈwɪɡ/
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NOUN
- a member of the political party that urged social reform in 18th and 19th century England; was the opposition party to the Tories
- a supporter of the American Revolution
- a member of the Whig Party that existed in the United States before the American Civil War
How To Use Whig In A Sentence
- For a while, the meeting rooms hummed as the unofficial home of the Whig Party.
- His life was one of varied and significant achievements - an advocate at the Scottish bar, a sound if impatient and pugnacious judge of the Court of Session, and a politically active Whig.
- Offered second billing on the Whig Party ticket in 1848, Daniel Webster cracked, "I do not propose to be buried until I am dead.
- And so the most important of "the streamlike windings of the glorious street" was in part determined by a corrupt bargain between "a vile Whig" (as Hearne calls this hated Provost) and a complaisant mayor. The Charm of Oxford
- But the road's unco wild, and sae mony red-coats about, forby the whigs, that are no muckle better (the young lads o 'them) if they meet a fraim body their lane in the muirs. Old Mortality, Complete
- But then came word that the Whigs were at it again, seeking to kill the pact through a new tactic—attaching amendments “of such a character,” as Polk described it, “to jeopard its ratification by Mexico.” A Country of Vast Designs
- It was much broader than Tory or church party and avoided the divisive names of Whig and Tory at a time when many were combining to overthrow Walpole.
- The Whigs owed their name, like the Tories, to the exclusion crisis of Charles II's reign.
- And someone said the Whigs, and we put in the H and thought that made it a little bit more interesting, and we just kind of thought that it didn't really connotate any particular sound. The Whigs Play Out of 'Control'
- For the price of Hanoverian identification with Whiggism, albeit a somewhat watery Whiggism, was the permanent alienation of the die-hard ‘country’ Tory families.
