单词 | liberal-minded |
释义 | liberal-mindedadj.n. A. adj. In early use: having a generous character or disposition. Later: holding liberal opinions; tolerant, broad-minded. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > morally elevated quality > [adjective] > high-minded or magnanimous athelmodc1275 freec1380 worthya1393 great-heartedc1425 noble1447 magnanimec1475 greata1500 haught1530 magnanimous1547 heartya1555 high-minded1556 noble-natured1576 generous1581 noble-minded1586 liberal-minded1592 ingenious1597 ingenuous1598 large-hearted1607 noble-tempered1654 big-hearted1711 broad-hearted1719 megalopsychic1896 big1910 1592 [see sense B.]. 1597 N. Ling Politeuphuia: Wits Common Wealth f. 77v A liberal minded man can neuer be enuious. 1613 A. Whitaker Good Newes from Virginia 21 We haue many reasons to encourage vs to bee Liberall minded and open-handed toward them. 1645 H. Hammond Pract. Catech. ii. i. 135 We read of them that part with any thing deere to them for Christs sake,..(which I conceive belongs especially to the liberall minded man). 1769 London Chron. 10 Oct. 356/3 The opinion of those whom we think impartial, and liberal minded. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1756 I. 168 The booksellers are generous liberal-minded men. 1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna Pref. p. x Can he who the day before was a trampled slave, suddenly become liberal-minded? 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam Epil. 205 Thou art..liberal-minded, great, Consistent. View more context for this quotation 1925 M. Beerbohm Observ. 16 Too proud to fight?..or too liberal-minded?—or what? 1961 Bible (New Eng.) Acts xvii. 11 The Jews here were more liberal-minded than those at Thessalonika. 2001 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 15 Nov. 52/4 The liberal-minded conviviality of the age of Diderot and Mirabeau. B. n. With the and plural agreement. Liberal-minded people collectively. ΚΠ 1592 R. Greene Thirde Pt. Conny-catching sig. Cv What extraordinarie deuises are now adayes, to beguile the simple and honest liberall minded. 1769 London Mag. Feb. 78/2 However ready the liberal-minded were at first to listen. 1795 John Bull Starving (new ed.) 10 The liberal minded and the well-born are few. 1826 Lancet 25 Mar. 867/2 The general benefits which the patronage of the liberal-minded has conferred upon mankind. 1862 New Monthly Mag. 124 225 There are certain hypocritical clanish bigots..who merit and receive from the liberal-minded of their own country a more severe and unqualified condemnation than we have..been compelled to pronounce. 1917 World's Work Nov. 51/1 The success of the Revolution was accompanied and helped by the success of the liberal-minded in England. 1971 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Doctor Bird v. 71 Mini Adult Show for the Liberal Minded. 1995 Traveller Summer 25/3 Wreck Beach has been popular with naturalists (a.k.a. nudists) and the liberal-minded since the 1920's. Derivatives ˌliberal-ˈmindedness n. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > absence of prejudice > [noun] franchisec1325 liberal-mindedness1625 unbiassednessa1656 unprejudicateness1660 unprejudicedness1664 unprejudice1721 liberality1783 enlargement1806 imprejudice1806 unpossessednessc1819 liberalism1820 open-mindedness1832 liberalness1861 1625 R. Bolton Some Gen. Direct. for Comfortable Walking with God 288 Some boysterous flourishes of liberal-mindednesse. 1783 Gentleman's Mag. 53 ii. 938 What the liberal-mindedness of the present age amounts to [etc.]. 1874 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David IV. Ps. lxxxix. 43 Indifference to all truth, under the name of liberal-mindedness, is the crowning virtue of the age. 1944 J. Morris Traveler from Tokyo i. x. 73 It has, moreover, kept up its tradition for liberal-mindedness. 2007 C. Cronin tr. U. Beck & E. Grande Cosmopolitan Europe iv. 105 This liberal-mindedness and openness concerning values should not be confused with postmodern arbitrariness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1592 |
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