Whiggishとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Whig +‎ -ish.

形容詞

whiggish (comparative more whiggish, superlative most whiggish)

1. (politics, historical) Characteristic of a Whig; liberal.
2. (history, often capitalized) Characterized by a belief in inevitable progress, and tending to evaluate the past by the standards of the present; see Whig history.

   Near-synonym: presentist

   • 2012 October 3, Rebekah Higgitt, “Why whiggish won't do”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     Finally, whiggish narratives, strewn with heroes, only hinder understanding of how the world works.

   • 2015 May 15, Rebekah Higgitt, “Beware Eurosceptic versions of history and science”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     Abilafia’s article is a classic example of an old-fashioned “Whiggish” narrative. It claims a uniquely moderate and progressive advance toward the development of British institutions, traced continuously from Magna Carta and isolated from the rages and radicalism of the Continent.

   • 2015 December 21, David A. Graham, “The Wrong Side of 'the Right Side of History'”, in The Atlantic‎:

     Because this whiggish view depends on the expectation of progress, liberal politicians are more suspectible to it than their conservative brethren.

   • 2025 October 26, Kwame Anthony Appiah, “The Age of De-Skilling”, in The Atlantic‎:

     Of course, the reason we know all this—the reason the episode keeps turning up in Whiggish histories of technology—is that Plato wrote it down.

派生語

• whiggishness