liberative
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- liberatively adverb
Example Sentences
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Some of her earliest poems suggest she was already grasping toward what could not yet be described as “liberative language.”
From The New Yorker
Yes, where poetry is liberative language, connecting the fragments within us, connecting us to others like and unlike ourselves, replenishing our desire.
From The New Yorker
Speaking at the length that had earned him the title of "the most de liberative member of the world's most deliberative body," O'Mahoney referred only once to his leavetaking: "I regret that I shall not be a member of the Senate next year when this work will be done."
From Time Magazine Archive
Germany; works of evidence in, 472; literature of, 210; patriotism in liberative war, 240; philosophy of, 235 seq.; theology of, subdivision of, 211; three periods in its history, 218; sources of, 439; classification of, 440.
From Project Gutenberg
While no authoritative dogmatic teaching had given him an even approximately full and definite idea of the God-man, His personality, His character, and His mission, the fragmentary truths offered him had made His influence seem restrictive rather than liberative of human energies.
From Project Gutenberg
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