1820 Brit. Rev. Mar. 192 They thought it the first step to the liberalising of the whole western world.

1882 A. R. Wilkie Rosa xi. 85 The liberalizing of education..will, I trust, have a tendency to arouse the female mind generally.

1907 G. Tyrrell Through Scylla & Charybdis i. 7 The inheritors of mistaken concessions of principle derived from the ‘liberalisings’ of a bygone day.

1957 N.Y. Times 19 June 44/4 Any liberalizing of policy would need legislative sanction.

2001 D. Mazel Cent. Early Ecocriticism 6 The profession's newfound receptivity to things American owed less to any liberalizing of the academy than it did to the patriotic atmosphere following World War I.

1792 Test Rom. Catholic Liberality 28 Those prejudices were not strong enough to repress the liberalizing spirit of the reformed Religion.

1799 Anti-Jacobin Rev. & Mag. 4 159 A mild, benevolent, liberalising, beneficent, religion.

1850 G. Grote Hist. Greece VIII. ii. lxviii. 634 Intolerance is the natural weed of the human bosom, though its growth or development may be counteracted by liberalizing causes.

1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation v. 259 The course was not truly, what it claimed to be, liberalising.

1913 A. Fawkes Stud. Modernism 373 The name Modernism was given to the present phase of the liberalising movement in the Church of Rome by the Civiltà Cattolica.

1973 Times Lit. Suppl. 2 Mar. 238/4 The suppression of Dubček's liberalizing administration.

2001 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 4 Oct. 32/1 The liberalizing reforms, including a new system of market prices.