illiberal meaning
ENFR illibéral
- AdjectiveCOMmore illiberalSUPmost illiberalPREill-
- Restrictive to individual choice and freedom.
- 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.
- narrow-minded; bigoted.
- Accordingly, that form of Popery, which prevailed in Scotland, was of the moſt bigotted and illiberal kind.
- ungenerous, stingy.
- ...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...
- Restrictive to individual choice and freedom.
Definition of illiberal in English Dictionary
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- en illiberally
- en illiberality
- en illiberalize
- en illiberalise
- en illiberalism
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