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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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"Liberal" Quotes from Famous Books

... have his reputation and well-won laurels tarnished in the service of the insidious despotism to which he now became an instrument. Don John was a natural son of Charles V., and to fine talents and a good disposition united the advantages of hereditary courage and a liberal education. He was born at Ratisbon on the 24th of February, 1543. His reputed mother was a young lady of that place named Barbara Blomberg; but one historian states that the real parent was of a condition ...

— Holland - The History of the Netherlands • Thomas Colley Grattan

... the most he could do was to drop a few white beans from the pocketful that Lynch had provided. The night was very dark and they rode on interminably, camping at dawn in a shut-in canyon; and so on for three nights until his mind became a blank as far as direction was concerned. His liberal supply of beans had been exhausted the first night and since then they had passed over a hundred rocky hog-backs and down a thousand boulder-strewn canyons. As to the whereabouts of Blackwater he had no more idea than a cat that has been carried in a bag; ...

— Wunpost • Dane Coolidge

... for any position to which it may be called. She taught a contempt of falsehood, no less in its most graceful, than in its meanest apparitions; the cultivation of a clear, independent judgment, and adherence to its dictates; habits of various and liberal study and employment, and a capacity for friendship. Her standard of character is the same for both sexes,— Truth, honor, enlightened benevolence, and aspiration after knowledge. Of poetry, she knows nothing, and her religion consists in honor and loyalty to ...

— Woman in the Ninteenth Century - and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition - and Duties, of Woman. • Margaret Fuller Ossoli

... some adverse criticism among a few of the less liberal patrons of the community in regard to the basket work and nature study Miss Reist is teaching. Oh, I suppose we must expect that! Progress is always hampered by sluggish stupidity and contrariness. We who can see into the future and read the demands of the times must surely note that ...

— Amanda - A Daughter of the Mennonites • Anna Balmer Myers

... said, dryly. "I don't know's there's anything more to be said. All the questions seem to be settled. Our acquaintance wa'n't so awful long, but it was interestin'. Knowin' you has been, as the feller said, a liberal education. Don't let me keep ...

— Cap'n Warren's Wards • Joseph C. Lincoln

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