1682. T. Flatman, Heraclitus Ridens, No. 66 (1713), II. 161. What other Whiggery have you?
1714. G. Lockhart, Mem. Scot. (ed. 3), 128. The first of these was … after the Revolution, raised to the Bench upon Account of his Whiggery and Disloyalty.
1814. Scott, Wav., xxx. That’s a’ your Whiggery, and your presbytery, ye cut-lugged, graning carles!
1843. E. Quincy, Life of W. L. Garrison, iii. 92. Great opposition was made to David Lee Child on account of his bias towards Whiggery.
1849. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., ii. I. 275. Noisy zealots, whose only claim to promotion was that they were always drinking confusion to Whiggery, and lighting bonfires to burn the Exclusion Bill.
1876. N. Amer. Rev., CXXIII. 213. Whiggery meant sound views on the tariff.
1885. Courthope, Lib. Movem. Engl. Lit., ii. 50. Whiggery, in Burke’s days, meant simply adherence to the principles of the Revolution of 1688.
1908. Sat. Rev., 9 May, 586/2. We must congratulate Mr. Asquith on disregarding the shrill cries of antiquated whiggery.
b. fig. Rebellion. (Cf. WHIG sb.2 3 b.)
1826. Galt, Last of Lairds, i. 3. When the day happened to be wet, the poultry were accustomed to murmur their sullen and envious whiggery against the same weather [etc.].
