单词 | liberator |
释义 | liberatorn. 1. A person who or (occasionally) a thing which liberates; a deliverer. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > [noun] > one who frees releaser?a1475 freer1604 liberator1615 enfranchiser1632 Messiah1667 1615 E. Grimeston tr. P. d'Avity Estates 964 The image of Iupiter Elutherius, or liberator [Fr. liberateur], was erected in the place where the battaile was fought. 1650 J. Howell tr. A. Giraffi Exact Hist. Late Revol. Naples 138 I have reverenced him as much as possibly I could, as Liberator of his Country. 1658 J. Hewitt Repentance & Conversion 155 The exploits of the Judges and Kings given to the people of God for Liberators. 1718 M. Malard French & Protestant Compan. 497/1 He [sc. the Pope] is the Lyon of the Tribe of Juda of the Race of Jesse, the Saviour and Liberator of Israel. 1790 Maid of Kent I. 214 You have, therefore, a grateful return to make—her liberators must be rewarded. 1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi I. i. i. 24 The future liberator of Rome. 1881 Academy 16 Apr. 272 The invading army of liberators was closely blockaded. 1924 A. Schoellkopf Don Jose de San Martin iii. 40 San Martin was a born leader, a hero and a liberator. 1969 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Dec. 1465/3 On the Riviera, the liberator's cause is seen as a distant grey dream, so easily dulled by ratatouille and red wine. 1992 DJ 26 Nov. 12/2 Acid, the drug that is, was hailed as the great liberator back in the hazy, hippy sixties. 2. spec. Chiefly with the and capital initial. a. (An epithet of) Simón Bolívar (1783–1830), Venezuelan statesman who led the campaign to liberate South America from Spanish rule. ΚΠ 1818 Caledonian Mercury 15 June The Liberator kept himself in safety, with great prudence.—What a coward! 1824 Times 22 Oct. 2/3 General Vallero's reinforcement of upwards of 4,000 men will therefore make the Liberator's army at least 21,000. 1843 T. Carlyle Dr. Francia in Misc. Ess. (1899) IV. 262 Bolivar, ‘the Washington of Columbia’, Liberator Bolivar. 1913 L. Grahame tr. R. Reyes Two Americas (1914) xix. 272 On the death of the Liberator, Venezuela and Ecuador seceded from the united Republic. 1948 J. B. Trend Bolívar & Independence of Spanish Amer. 259 To the mind of the Liberator there was considerable difference between a president-for-life and a king or an emperor. 1995 Rotarian May 31/1 The presence of the great Liberator..is everywhere in this city of 3.5 million. b. (An epithet of) Daniel O'Connell (1775–1847), Irish nationalist leader and statesman who campaigned for the repeal of the Union between Great Britain and Ireland. ΚΠ 1828 Morning Chron. 4 July The Liberator of Ireland against the Conqueror of Waterloo. 1828 Belfast News-let. 8 July What then will the ‘Liberator’ have gained by his Clare exploit? 1848 W. J. O'N. Daunt Recoll. O'Connell I. 16 In..1834, I was in Dublin, and met the Liberator at a Repeal meeting. 1905 P. A. Sheehan Glenanaar v. 51 He..saw..the Abbey of Derrynane, the home of the Liberator, and the goal of all his desires. 1950 J. D. Clarkson in E. M. Earle Nationalism & Internationalism 49 Neither Irish ‘Ribandism’ nor English Chartism received any sympathy from the Liberator. 2001 A. T. Q. Stewart Shape of Irish Hist. vii. 152 Today he is remembered as the Liberator, but not as the Repealer; yet he is the architect of the modern Republic of Ireland. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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