| 单词 |
liberalist |
| 释义 |
liberalist|ˈlɪbərəlɪst|
[f. liberal a. + -ist.]
An advocate of liberalism in politics or religion; a liberal.
1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) IV. 410 We are forced to draw up: we are forced, little by little, to turn liberalists. 1817W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. LXXXIII. 490 He had insensibly acquired the confidence of the entire party of continental liberalists. 1823Keble Lett. Spir. Counsel viii. (1870) 18 Of course, if this be true of dissenters, it is more so of those who are mere liberalists.
attrib. or adj.1846O. A. Brownson Wks. V. 522 Faith is not, as our liberalist divines hold, something in addition to the Christian life. 1889Times 19 June, The opposition of the Liberalist party has a basis in principle. 1958A. Paton Hope for S. Afr. ii. 7 Further, the word ‘liberal’ has for the white enemies of South African Liberalism another meaning; it shares this further meaning with the words ‘liberalist’ and ‘liberalistic’. This meaning is derogatory and carries the stigma of ‘loose’, ‘careless’, ‘promiscuous’. 1972Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Oct. 1272/2 Liberal or (in the pejorative corruption of her Afrikaner opponents) liberalist. |
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