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What does whiggish mean?

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Adjective
  1. Characteristic of a Whig; liberal.
  2. of history, characterized by a belief in inevitable progress, and tending to evaluate the past by the standards of the present; see "Whig history".
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As far, however, as he could be said to have any opinions, his opinions were Whiggish.
What kind of Whiggish, canting talk is this, for the house of Cluny Macpherson?
The Dunces were middle-class and Whiggish, their spirit capitalist.
Mr. Cheeseman shed a tear, and put on a new apron, and entirely reformed his political views, which had been loose and Whiggish.
For the Tories this tap represented all that was most loathsome, most repulsive, most Whiggish.
Shelley was increasingly impatient with Whiggish parliamentary reform and compromise.

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