liberatory

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adjective

Serving to liberate.

“a liberatory conflict”

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adjectiveliberatory (comparative more liberatory, superlative most liberatory)

comparative more liberatory · superlative most liberatory

  1. Serving to liberate.

    a liberatory conflict

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    One of the difficulties facing efforts to constitute a radicalized articulation of ecology remains that nature has been more firmly affixed to hegemonic discourses, e.g. consumerism or "resourceism" than to liberatory discourses.

    2006, Atenea, volumes 26-27

    In the case of Rothbard, for example, crusader's faith in the efficiency and liberatory potential of the invisible hand is resolutely resistant to the piled-up evidence that it's a catastrophe for the many.

    2022, China Miéville, chapter 6, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC

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