liberalistn.adj.
/ˈlɪb(ə)rəlɪst/, /ˈlɪb(ə)rl̩ɪst/, U.S. /ˈlɪb(ə)rələst/ A. n.† 1. = liberal n. 1. Obsolete. rare.
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1795 Observant Pedestrian II. 2 I saw too, the cambric handkerchief absorb the chrystal of compassion as the fair liberalist turned through the park.
2. An advocate of liberalism; a liberal.Sometimes used with pejorative connotation instead of liberal.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > free thought > [noun] > person
libertine1547
free-thinker?1700
liberalist1804
society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > groups or attitudes right to left > [noun] > the left > old left or liberal > adherent of
liberalist1804
Old Leftist1953
pinko-liberal1957
1804 Anti-Jacobin Rev. & Mag. 17 Pref. p. xxiv Let him, in his domestic policy, combine vigour with temperance..rejecting the secret suggestions of sectaries and liberalists.
a1866 J. Keble Lett. Spiritual Counsel & Guidance (1870) viii. 18 Of course, if this be true of dissenters, it is more so of those who are mere liberalists.
1879 Times 20 May 12/4 The Liberalist is in everything a caricature of the real Liberal.
1928 Social Forces 7 224/1 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell..an earnest social worker, a liberalist, a dissenter, a humanitarian, and a prophetess of distinctly modern social methods.
1972 R. A. Scalapino & C.-S. Lee Communism in Korea I. i. vii. 520 He was to be purged as a traditionalist and liberalist in 1962, despite his monumental efforts for Kim and the Party.
2007 P. Morgan in A. Collins Contemp. Security Stud. ii. 25/1 Liberalists tend to treat the state as less important in itself.
B. adj.
Of, relating to, or characterized by liberalism or liberalists; liberal.See note at sense A. 2.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > free thought > [adjective]
free-thinking1691
liberalist1824
liberalistic1836
liberal1846
1824 Monthly Rev. 103 188 This nefarious attempt..materially contributed to prepare the subsequent ascendancy of the philosophic or liberalist party.
1846 O. A. Brownson Wks. V. 522 Faith is not, as our liberalist divines hold, something in addition to the Christian life.
1889 Times 19 June The opposition of the Liberalist party has a basis in principle.
1916 Catholic World June 313 What a pity that the idea with which most modern liberalist writers approach the study of Christian tradition should be the dead one of document and book.
1972 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Oct. 1272/2 Liberal or (in the pejorative corruption of her Afrikaner opponents) liberalist.
2007 D. Durham in J. Cole & D. Lynn Generations & Globalization iv. 104 The liberalist expectations of equality and equal opportunity for citizens are predominant at the level of official discourse.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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