(a.) Free by birth; hence, befitting a freeman or gentleman; refined; noble; independent; free; not servile or mean; as, a liberal ancestry; a liberal spirit; liberal arts or studies.
(a.) Bestowing in a large and noble way, as a freeman; generous; bounteous; open-handed; as, a liberal giver.
(a.) Bestowed in a large way; hence, more than sufficient; abundant; bountiful; ample; profuse; as, a liberal gift; a liberal discharge of matter or of water.
(a.) Not strict or rigorous; not confined or restricted to the literal sense; free; as, a liberal translation of a classic, or a liberal construction of law or of language.
(a.) Not narrow or contracted in mind; not selfish; enlarged in spirit; catholic.
(a.) Free to excess; regardless of law or moral restraint; licentious.
(a.) Not bound by orthodox tenets or established forms in political or religious philosophy; independent in opinion; not conservative; friendly to great freedom in the constitution or administration of government; having tendency toward democratic or republican, as distinguished from monarchical or aristocratic, forms; as, liberal thinkers; liberal Christians; the Liberal party.
(n.) One who favors greater freedom in political or religious matters; an opponent of the established systems; a reformer; in English politics, a member of the Liberal party, so called. Cf. Whig.
Example Sentences:
(1) The amount of stearic acid liberated was much larger than that of arachidonic acid between 30 s and 1 min of ischemia.
(2) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
(3) By means of rapid planar Hill type antimony-bismuth thermophiles the initial heat liberated by papillary muscles was measured synchronously with developed tension for control (C), pressure-overload (GOP), and hypothyrotic (PTU) rat myocardium (chronic experiments) and after application of 10(-6) M isoproterenol or 200 10(-6) M UDCG-115.
(4) The cercaria, microcercous in type, is liberated and actively penetrates a second terrestrial pulmonate where development to the free metacercarial stage takes place in the pericardial cavity.
(5) The bacterial strains did not liberate free patulin from the adduct mixture present in the growth medium.
(6) The Chinese model of development, which combines political repression and economic liberalism, has attracted numerous admirers in the developing world.
(7) CCK-OP and PMA activated phospholipase A (PLA) which liberated lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC) and free fatty acids from membrane phosphatidylcholine.
(8) Yet it is liberal Muslims such as Sadiq Khan who are best placed to challenge extremist views within their own communities.
(9) As he gears up to contest the Liberal Democrat seat of Gordon in north-east Scotland, Salmond effectively assumes a commanding role in the general election campaign.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats have suffered a dramatic slump in support as a result of their role in the coalition and are now barely ahead of the Greens with an average rating of about 8% in the polls.
(11) The Liberal party received $320,000 from the Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Industry Association.
(12) The reactivity of the three disulphide bridges of insulin towards sodium sulphite was studied by amperometric titration of the liberated thiol groups.
(13) But, in a sign of tension within the coalition government, the Liberal Democrats home affairs spokesman, Tom Brake, told BBC2's Newsnight that "if [the offenders in question] had committed the same offence the day before the riots, they would not have received a sentence of that nature".
(14) ), like phenoxybenzamine, blocked responses to field stimulation, but failed to modify release and subsequent metabolism of NA liberated by field stimulation.8.
(15) There are a few seats, such as South Dorset and Braintree, where the Liberal Democrats are in third place and a third party revival would help the Conservatives to regain the seats lost to Labour but they are outnumbered by vulnerable Tory marginals.
(16) The results provide further in vivo evidence that ROI are causative agents in H liberation during reperfusion of the ischemic gut.
(17) The kidney KGA activity was compared with the urinary KGA activity, and the following properties were found to be the same: molecular dimension, pH optimum, effect of inhibitors, and ability to liberate kinins from kininogens.3.
(18) Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon, People's Liberation Army's chief of the general staff Gen Fang Fenghui also warned that the US must be objective about tensions between China and Vietnam or risk harming relations between Washington and Beijing.
(19) The Dacre review panel, which included Sir Joseph Pilling, a retired senior civil servant, and the historian Prof Sir David Cannadine, said Britain now had one of the "less liberal" regimes in Europe for access to confidential government papers and that reform was needed to restore some trust between politicians and people.
(20) It’s likely Xi’s brand of smart authoritarianism will keep not just his party in power but the whole show on the road If all this were to succeed as intended, western liberal democratic capitalism would have a formidable ideological competitor with worldwide appeal, especially in the developing world.
Munificent
Definition:
(a.) Very liberal in giving or bestowing; lavish; as, a munificent benefactor.
Example Sentences:
(1) His munificent patronage allowed Gehry to develop the technical tools and computer know-how that he would go on to employ on the Guggenheim Museum, and countless other projects since then.
(2) The majority of North Koreans depend not on the regime’s munificence but on market forces – they have already found this a more successful alternative, despite a disproportionate lack of international support or awareness.
(3) Many of these private contractors, such as Atos and G4S, pay little or no corporation tax, even as they benefit from state munificence.
(4) Theresa May’s cuddling up to Donald Trump is likely to result in a trade deal that will make the defeated Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership look munificent.
(5) As and when that happens, on the assumption that wages are hardly likely to skyrocket, tight household budgets could start to snap, and we may well be faced with echoes of 2007-8: mortgage defaults, a sudden crisis of confidence – and, this time, no munificent government to clear up the mess.
(6) All boats will float on a tide of US munificence that could scarcely have been foreseen last year, when the polls put Trump well behind Clinton.
(7) It sees growth as an exclusively south-eastern engine which, in its great munificence, powers the rest of the country – which must make do with a sliver of London's transport spending and find ways to milk the capital rather than build itself up.
(8) The queen of compassion and munificence had been brought to earth; the spell was broken, the magic gone.
(9) It is unlikely to be the munificence of the UK’s benefit system, which is not particularly generous compared with many continental countries, and isn’t open to asylum seekers anyway.
(10) These 3,000 people share no bonuses and are excluded from the magic circle of John Lewis staff who enjoy not just the profits but all manner of sports clubs and leisure activities, thanks to the munificence of John Spedan Lewis, who gave away the company in 1929 in trust to its staff in perpetuity.
(11) Farming is sustained on infertile land (by and large, the uplands) through taxpayers’ munificence .
(12) SC I recognise that art has always been reliant on the munificence of rich, private patrons.
(13) Beneath the surface of our lives churns an ocean of information, from whose depths answers and optimisations ascend like munificent kraken.
(14) He is now remembered almost exclusively for his munificence, rather than the route he took to attaining wealth: reputation management (or laundering) par excellence.
(15) Helwan map The Nasserite state succeeded in delivering material security to much of its population, but it was based on a strictly paternal model of authority: the highest ranks of the military would rule in the interests of everybody, and everybody would be grateful for their munificence.
(16) The job market for young people is increasingly insecure, and low paid: it is sobering to think that the hourly minimum wage for an under-19 apprentice is about to increase from £2.73 to a munificent £3.30.