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liberal
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[ noun ] (politics) a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties
Synonyms Used in print (Randall Stewart, "A Little History, a Little Honesty: A...)Southern Liberals ( there are a_good_many ) - especially if they 're rich - often exhibit blithe insouciance . I must confess that I prefer the Liberal who is personally affected , who is willing to send his own children to a mixed school as proof of his faith . I 'm talking_about the grand manner of the Liberal - North and South - who is not affected personally . (Brainard Cheney, "Christianity and the Tragic Vision-Ut...)It seemed to me that the liberals had scrapped the balanced polarity and reposed both liberty and the fundamental_law in the common_man . This is important to understanding the position that doctrinaire liberals found themselves in after World_War_2 , and our great democratic victory that brought no peace . Related terms conservative adult Whig pluralist armchair_liberal neoliberal latitudinarian |
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[ adjective ] showing or characterized by broad-mindedness
Examples "a broad political stance" "generous and broad sympathies" "a liberal newspaper" "tolerant of his opponent's opinions" Used in print (Schubert Ogden, Christ Without Myth....)We have aligned ourselves with that `` liberal '' tradition in Protestant Christianity that counts among the great names in its history those of Schleiermacher , Ritschl , Herrmann , Harnack , and Troeltsch , and more recently , Schweitzer and the early Barth and , in part at_least , Bultmann . When we say , then , that today , in our situation , the demand for demythologization must be accepted without condition , we are simply saying that at_least this much of the liberal tradition is an enduring achievement . However much we may have to criticize liberal theology 's constructive formulations , the theology we ourselves must strive to formulate can only go beyond liberalism , not behind it . (Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)His assumption seems to be that any such friends , being tolerable humans , must be more liberal than most Southerners and therefore at_least partly in_sympathy_with his views . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] showing or characterized by broad-mindedness
Synonyms Examples "a broad political stance" "generous and broad sympathies" "a liberal newspaper" "tolerant of his opponent's opinions" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] (politics) having political or social views favoring reform and progress
Used in print (Harold Rosenberg, "The Trial and Eichmann"...)Public_relations strategists everywhere , watching the reaction of the German press , the liberal press , the lunatic fringe press , listening to their neighbors , studying interviews with men and women on the street , cried_out : Too_much , too_much - the mind of the audience is becoming dulled , the horrors are losing their effect . (Brainard Cheney, "Christianity and the Tragic Vision-Ut...)And by the time the war ended , liberal leadership in_this country was spiritually Marxist . During the next five years liberal leaders in the United_States sank in the cumulative confusion attendant upon and manifested in a negative policy of Containment - and the bitterest irony - enforced and enforceable only by threat of a weapon that we felt the greatest distaste for but could not abandon : In 1952 , it will be remembered , the G._O._P. without positive program campaigned on the popular disillusionment with liberal leadership and won overwhelmingly . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] (politics) tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition
Used in print (Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism , because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson , who held that the best government was the least government . Yet paradoxically my liberal friends continue to view Jefferson as one of their patron_saints . |
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[ adjective ] given or giving freely
Examples "was a big tipper" "the bounteous goodness of God" "bountiful compliments" "a freehanded host" "a handsome allowance" "Saturday's child is loving and giving" "a liberal backer of the arts" "a munificent gift" Used in print (Douglas Ashford, "Elections in Morocco: Progress...)There were liberal provisions for dispensation where documents or records were lacking . (Edwin L. Bigelow and Nancy H. Otis,...)The line soon lived_up_to its name , as local messages of moderate length could be sent for a dime and the company was quickly able to declare very liberal dividends on its capital_stock . Related terms |
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[ noun ] a person who favors an economic theory of laissez-faire and self-regulating markets
Used in print (Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)Why , in_the_first_place , call himself a liberal if he is against laissez-faire and favors an authoritarian central government with womb-to-tomb controls over everybody ? Related terms |
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