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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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Recent cliometric work has challenged the Whiggish point of view.
Indeed, in what seemed to be a throwback to nineteenth century Whiggish history, the viewing public were being sold a figure as being the greatest Briton.
His passions, on the contrary, were violent even to slaying against all who leaned to Whiggish principles.
Many students held to Whiggish, evangelical, and Utilitarian convictions of their duty to represent their nation and to modernise India.
Shelley was increasingly impatient with Whiggish parliamentary reform and compromise.
Although, therefore, the class might be Whiggish, it did not share the strongest revolutionary passions.

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