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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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Although, therefore, the class might be Whiggish, it did not share the strongest revolutionary passions.
Shelley was increasingly impatient with Whiggish parliamentary reform and compromise.
What kind of Whiggish, canting talk is this, for the house of Cluny Macpherson?
The Dunces were middle-class and Whiggish, their spirit capitalist.
As far, however, as he could be said to have any opinions, his opinions were Whiggish.
His passions, on the contrary, were violent even to slaying against all who leaned to Whiggish principles.

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