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Liberal

adjective

1.

Showing or characterized by broad-mindedness. Synonyms: broad, large-minded, tolerant. "Generous and broad sympathies" , "A liberal newspaper" , "Tolerant of his opponent's opinions"

2.

Having political or social views favoring reform and progress.

3.

Tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition.

4.

Given or giving freely. Synonyms: big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, giving, handsome, openhanded. "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" , "Her fond and openhanded grandfather"

5.

Not literal. Synonyms: free, loose. "A free translation of the poem"

noun

1.

A person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties. Synonyms: liberalist, progressive.

2.

A person who favors an economic theory of laissez-faire and self-regulating markets.

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... dissenter at once if he had excommunicated any one by withdrawing his sympathies from him. He knew that this minister was a thoroughly good man, and he had even gone to hear him preach once or twice. He knew too that his congregation was not the more liberal to him that he was liberal to all men. So he resolved that he would act the part of one of the black angels that brought bread and meat to Elijah in the wilderness. Uncle Peter would never have pretended to rank higher than one of ...

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... power of his fitness, by vigilance that never relaxed, by despotism that was by turns savage and gentle, but always paternal, by the fact that his brain and his brawn were always more than a match for the brain and brawn of all the men under him. To be sure, the liberal measure of seventy-nine lashes was laid on the back of any subordinate showing signs of mutiny, but that did not ...

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— A Fascinating Traitor • Richard Henry Savage

... seeing the hopelessness of the royal cause, sent a deputation to Lafayette to announce the revocation of the obnoxious decrees and the nomination of a new and liberal ministry. "It is too late," Lafayette sent word back, "all conciliation is impossible. The royal family has ceased to reign." Thus ended the dynasty of the elder branch of the Bourbons on the throne of France. The deposed king was allowed to ...

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