"Hobbish" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1704, Edward Ward, The Dissenting Hypocrite, or Occasional Conformist; […] , page 12:",
          "text": "Their Notions Machiavellian, Hobbish, / Draw Multitudes, because they’re Mobbish",
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          "ref": "1705, William Shippen, Moderation Display’d: A Poem, Preface:",
          "text": "[…] 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that Succession is a Jest, that all Forms of Government are in their own Nature mutable, and may be altered, or quite rescinded, as the Power in beginning shall think fit.",
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          "ref": "1851, Hartley Coleridge, “Notes on British Poets”, in Derwent Coleridge, editor, Essays and Marginalia, volume 2, page 72:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "[…] 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that Succession is a Jest, that all Forms of Government are in their own Nature mutable, and may be altered, or quite rescinded, as the Power in beginning shall think fit.",
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