Antedating of "Conservatism"

[Fred Shapiro]

conservatism (OED 1835)

1832 _Times_ 17 Oct. 3  The reformers, disgusted by Cobbett's coarseness
and want of principle on the one hand, and Loyd's modified conservatism on
the other, saw in Thomson just the sort of man they desired to have.

Fred Shapiro


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