1) American revolution supporter 2) British pol 3) Clay or webster 4) Clay was one 5) Daniel Webster was one 6) Defunct political party 7) Democratic opponent of yore 8) Early American politico 9) Fillmore''s party 10) Former opponent of the Tories 11) GOP forerunner 12) Henry clay, politically 13) Jacksonian detractor
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- urged social reform in 19th century England
- a supporter of the American Revolution
- a member of the Whig Party in the United States in pre-Civil-War times
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• (n.) A friend and supporter of the American Revolution; -- opposed to Tory, and Royalist. • (n.) One of a political party which grew up in England in the seventeenth century, in the reigns of Charles I. and II., when great contests existed respecting the royal prerogatives and the rights of the people. Those who supported the king in hi...
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In Questions of English, Marshall notes the term Whig originally was an insulting nickname for Scott
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Whig adjective Of or pertaining to the Whigs.
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Whig noun [ See
Whey .] Acidulated whey, sometimes mixed with buttermilk and sweet herbs, used as a cooling beverage. [ Obsolete or Prov. Eng.]
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The name given to a relatively progressive political group in the British Parliament in the 18th century, whose successors by the middle of the 19th had become the Liberal Party.
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Whig was a nickname applied to the Covenanters in Scotland and later generally to the Presbyterian party in Scotland and the opponents of the monarchy in England. In the early 19th century the term was replaced with ' liberal'.
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n] - urged social reform in 19th century England 2. [n] - a supporter of the American Revolution 3. [n] - a member of the Whig Party in the United States in pre-Civil-War times
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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
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Whigs emerged in the 1670s as the main opponents of James, Duke of York, the Catholic brother of Charles II. From 1679-81 they led parliamentary attempts to exclude James from the succession. Like their Tory opponents, the name derives from a group of brigands, the Whiggamores, although they were Scottish, rather than Irish, in origin. After James ...
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