单词 | liberatory |
释义 | liberatoryadj. That liberates; liberating. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > [adjective] liberatory1592 emancipatory1652 liberating1658 liberative1741 unfettering1824 emancipative1862 emancipating1874 1592 W. West Symbolæogr.: 1st Pt. §46 Instruments..of their effects be either Constitutiue and making, or remissorie and liberatorie. 1655 W. Sheppard President of Presidents i. 2 Some Deeds are of matters of Grants..; and some are marring, or remissory, and liberatory. 1744 P. Lewis Final Call to Jews 44 The prophet Isaiah..was in an eminent manner anointed of God to his liberatory office. 1751 A. McDouall Inst. Laws Scotl. I. 329 Liberatory pactions, whereby any right is past from or restricted, and no new right is to be made, are effectual without writing. 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iv. vii. 387 Strong men, and liberatory Samsons. 1891 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 2 82 A liberatory act could not exact labor from those whom it had freed. 1917 A. S. Kaun tr. A. Kornilov Mod. Russ. Hist. II. xxiv. 76 Russia needed at that moment various liberatory reforms. 1977 A. Fugard No-good Friday i, in Dimetos & Two Early Plays 124 We must weld ourselves into a sharp spearhead for the liberatory movement. 2001 Third Text Spring 57 His self-portraits are redemptive and liberatory in their focus on the self. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1592 |
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