Hobbish

English Etymology From en Hobbes a surname ish. Adjective - en archaic Hobbesian en 1704 Ned Ward Edward Ward The Dissenting Hypocrite, or Occasional Conformist; 12 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=s6hgAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA12 Their Notions Machiavellian, Hobbish, / Draw Multitudes, because they’re Mobbish en 1705 William Shippen (MP) William Shippen Moderation Display’d: A Poem Preface https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TPZbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP8 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that Succession is a Jest, that all Forms of Government are in their own Nature mutable, and may be altered, or quite rescinded, as the Power in beginning shall think fit. en 1851 w:Hartley Coleridge w:Derwent Coleridge Notes on British Poets Essays and Marginalia 2 72 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Ll8JAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA72 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. en eponyms