Whig

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Whig / (h)wig/ hist. • n. 1. a member of the British reforming and constitutional party that sought the supremacy of Parliament and was eventually succeeded in the 19th century by the Liberal Party.2. an American colonist who supported the American Revolution. ∎  a member of an American political party in the 19th century, succeeded by the Republicans.3. a 17th-century Scottish Presbyterian.4. [as adj.] denoting a historian who interprets history as the continuing and inevitable victory of progress over reaction.DERIVATIVES: Whig·ger·y / -ərē/ n.Whig·gish adj.Whig·gism / -ˌizəm/ n.

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