Word Meanings - LIBERALIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices. To open and to liberalize the mind. Burke.

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• NARROW
  A narrow passage; esp., a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water; -- usually in the plural; as, The Narrows of New York harbor. Near the island lay on one side the jaws of a dangerous narrow. Gladstone.
• LIBERALIZE
  To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices. To open and to liberalize the mind. Burke.
• LIBERALISTIC
  Pertaining to, or characterized by, liberalism; as, liberalistic opinions.
• NARROW-MINDED
  Of narrow mental scope; illiberal; mean. -- Nar"row-mind`ed*ness, n.
• NARROWER
  One who, or that which, narrows or contracts. Hannah More.
• LIBERALIZATION
  The act of liberalizing.
• LIBERALIST
  A liberal.
• NARROWLY
  1. With little breadth; in a narrow manner. 2. Without much extent; contractedly. 3. With minute scrutiny; closely; as, to look or watch narrowly; to search narrowly. 4. With a little margin or space; by a small distance; hence, closely; hardly;
• NARROWNESS
  The condition or quality of being narrow.
• LIBERALIZER
  One who, or that which, liberalizes. Emerson.
• LIBERALISM
  Liberal principles; the principles and methods of the liberals in politics or religion; specifically, the principles of the Liberal party.
• LIBERALLY
  In a liberal manner.
• LIBERALITY
  1. The quality or state of being liberal; liberal disposition or practice; freedom from narrowness or prejudice; generosity; candor; charity. That liberality is but cast away Which makes us borrow what we can not pay. Denham. 2. A gift; a gratuity;
• LIBERAL
  1. 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. " Liberal education." Macaulay. " A liberal tongue." Shak. 2.
• BURKE
  1. To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection. 2. To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary
• NARROWING
  1. The act of contracting, or of making or becoming less in breadth or extent. 2. The part of a stocking which is narrowed.
• ILLIBERALISM
  Illiberality.
• ILLIBERALNESS
  The state of being illiberal; illiberality.
• OVERLIBERAL
  Too liberal.
• ILLIBERALLY
  In a illiberal manner, ungenerously; uncharitably; parsimoniously.
• ILLIBERAL
  1. Not liberal; not free or generous; close; niggardly; mean; sordid. "A thrifty and illiberal hand." Mason. 2. Indicating a lack of breeding, culture, and the like; ignoble; rude; narrow-minded; disingenuous. 3. Not well authorized or elegant;
• OVERLIBERALLY
  In an overliberal manner.
• VIEWLY; VIEWSOME
  Pleasing to the sight; sightly.
• ILLIBERALIZE
  To make illiberal.