The Collaborative International Dictionary
Whiggish \Whig"gish\, a. Of or pertaining to Whigs; partaking of, or characterized by, the principles of Whigs.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, from Whig + -ish.
Wiktionary
a. 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.
Usage examples of "whiggish".
Every effort was made, as ye may well guess, to give him a welcome which should be worthy of the most Whiggish and Protestant town in England.
Queen Anne, Whiggish courtiers and politicians have been establishing contacts and forging alliances between London and Hanover.
He has other supporters, some of much greater value, but some, like the Duke and a few of the more whiggish admirals, who may do him more harm than good.
There was talk, apparently, of a rival paper setting up, this to support the Whiggish agenda, with its incautious talk of tyranny and the overthrow of the King.
Lords were Whiggish, and the majority of English nobles held Whig principles.
The malcontents of the whiggish faction, enraged to find their credit declining at court, joined in the cry which the Jacobites had raised against the government.
Instead Whig armies, and a slow Whiggish buzzing beginning through all the country.
Whiggish libels sell best, so industrious are they to propagate scandal and falsehood.
We tell our own history in triumphalist terms, as a steady pushing back of the frontiers of ignorance and darkness, as an account of inevitable progress, the sort that modern historians dismiss as Whiggish.