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whiggamore
The Whiggamore Raid (or "March of the Whiggamores") was a march on Edinburgh by supporters of the Kirk faction of the Covenanters to take power from the Engagers whose army had recently been defeated by the English New Model Army at the Battle of Preston (1648).Whiggamores (later shortened to Whigs)—a term most likely originating from the Scots for "mare drivers"—became a nickname for the Kirk party who were against the Engagement with King Charles I.
Webster Dictionary
Whiggamorenoun
a Whig; -- a cant term applied in contempt to Scotch Presbyterians
Etymology: [See Whig.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Whiggamore
hwig′a-mōr, n. originally a person who came from the west and south-west of Scotland to Leith to buy corn: one of the 7000 Western Covenanters who marched on Edinburgh in 1648, sealing the doom of Charles I.: a Scotch Presbyterian, a Whig. [Traced by some to whiggam, a sound used by the peasantry of the western Lowlands in driving their horses; others derive from whig, sour whey. Not derivable from whig (1) and Gael. mor, great.]
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of whiggamore in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of whiggamore in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
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