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Tylerism

The English word “Tylerism” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The policies of U.S. president John Tyler.
  2. The practice of abandoning the political party to which political office is owed, defecting while in office, committing political apostasy.
  3. The Reformed theology of Bennet Tyler.

Etymology

From Tyler + -ism. The abandoning-political-party sense came from John Tyler who is said to have done this after William Henry Harrison died in office.

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