liberalizern.
/ˈlɪb(ə)rəlʌɪzə/, /ˈlɪb(ə)rl̩ʌɪzə/, U.S. /ˈlɪb(ə)rəˌlaɪzər/ A person who or thing which liberalizes (in various senses).
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society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > [noun] > from restraint > intellectual or moral > one who
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1824 Examiner 6 Dec. 771/1 Religion is to become liberal, in the teeth of the illiberal conduct of it's [sic] liberalizers.
1833 J. H. Newman Let. 22 Nov. (1871) I. 490 The liberalisers in and out of Parliament.
1860 R. W. Emerson Culture in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 125 Archery, cricket, gun and fishing-rod..are all educators, liberalizers.
1915 Eng. Jrnl. 4 234 He employs every device that his skill, his purpose as a liberalizer, his acquaintance with the student can suggest to him.
1956 Life 22 Oct. 53/2 The abuses revealed at Poznan helped the liberalizers force the resignation of six high officials.
1996 B. Gardner European Agric. vi. 116 The US zero option was regarded by all Europeans, liberalisers as well as mercantilists and protectionists, as impractical.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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