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English
Etymology
From Hobbes (a surname) + -ish.
Adjective
Hobbish (not comparable)
- (archaic) Hobbesian
1704, Edward Ward, The Dissenting Hypocrite, or Occasional Conformist; , page 12:Their Notions Machiavellian, Hobbish, / Draw Multitudes, because they’re Mobbish
1705, William Shippen, Moderation Display’d: A Poem, Preface:[…] the Preacher (tho’ a celebrated Divine of our Church, whose Principles are entirely Monarchical) has freely asserted several Hobbish Notions, and told us, that Democracy is of equal esteem with Monarchy, that Succession is a Jest, that all Forms of Government are in their own Nature mutable, and may be altered, or quite rescinded, as the Power in beginning shall think fit.
1851, Hartley Coleridge, “Notes on British Poets”, in Derwent Coleridge, editor, Essays and Marginalia, volume 2, page 72:But I believe his Toryism to have been a natural emanation of his Hobbish infidelity, though in this age when infidelity affects democracy, and blackguards affect infidelity, this may sound like a paradox.