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illiberal meaning

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    Definition of illiberal in English Dictionary

  • AdjectiveCOMmore illiberalSUPmost illiberalPREill-
    1. Restrictive to individual choice and freedom.
      1. Behind Europe's commitment to liberal democracy lurks an illiberal tradition. Every time freedom has failed in Europe, it is to that tradition - of violent repression, totalitarianism, xenophobia, and intolerance - that Europeans have reverted.
    2. narrow-minded; bigoted.
      1. Accordingly, that form of Popery, which prevailed in Scotland, was of the moſt bigotted and illiberal kind.
    3. ungenerous, stingy.
      1. ...the final offer made on the part of the King was that the Queen should have an allowance of 52,000 pounds a year— not, one would have thought, a very illiberal allowance for the daughter of a small German prince...
  • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
    1. Adjectives
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    1. en illiberally
    2. en illiberality
    3. en illiberalize
    4. en illiberalise
    5. en illiberalism
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    Grammatically, this word "illiberal" is an adjective.
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