Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Tending to liberate or set free.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Tending, or serving, to liberate.

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  • adjective Serving to liberate.

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Examples

  • In this case, the force of the "liberatory" might be shaken loose by the more openly libratory (for oscillatory) effects of subvocal text production.

    Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian 2008

  • Trangression and transgressive are a long way on the way to acquiring wholly positive meanings something like 'liberatory', 'unconstrained', 'life-affirming', 'joyous'.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Adam Roberts Project 2007

  • Trangression and transgressive are a long way on the way to acquiring wholly positive meanings something like 'liberatory', 'unconstrained', 'life-affirming', 'joyous'.

    Transgression Adam Roberts Project 2007

  • Just as the Israelites, who were emancipated from slavery in Egypt celebrated on Passover, and just as the early Christians, who encountered Jesus' liberatory preferential option for the poor, began to live as witnesses to the possibility of a different world.

    Rabbi Michael Lerner: Create A Passover Seder Or Easter Gathering For The 99% Rabbi Michael Lerner 2012

  • Imagine dozens, or hundreds, of people gathering in every city, town, neighborhood, synagogue, church and college campus to go through a set of rituals and readings together that recall the liberatory message of our traditions and to apply them to the contemporary world that first weekend in April or in the following days.

    Rabbi Michael Lerner: Create A Passover Seder Or Easter Gathering For The 99% Rabbi Michael Lerner 2012

  • Imagine dozens, or hundreds, of people gathering in every city, town, neighborhood, synagogue, church and college campus to go through a set of rituals and readings together that recall the liberatory message of our traditions and to apply them to the contemporary world that first weekend in April or in the following days.

    Rabbi Michael Lerner: Create A Passover Seder Or Easter Gathering For The 99% Rabbi Michael Lerner 2012

  • Imagine dozens, or hundreds, of people gathering in every city, town, neighborhood, synagogue, church and college campus to go through a set of rituals and readings together that recall the liberatory message of our traditions and to apply them to the contemporary world that first weekend in April or in the following days.

    Rabbi Michael Lerner: Create A Passover Seder Or Easter Gathering For The 99% Rabbi Michael Lerner 2012

  • Just as the Israelites, who were emancipated from slavery in Egypt celebrated on Passover, and just as the early Christians, who encountered Jesus' liberatory preferential option for the poor, began to live as witnesses to the possibility of a different world.

    Rabbi Michael Lerner: Create A Passover Seder Or Easter Gathering For The 99% Rabbi Michael Lerner 2012

  • Just as the Israelites, who were emancipated from slavery in Egypt celebrated on Passover, and just as the early Christians, who encountered Jesus' liberatory preferential option for the poor, began to live as witnesses to the possibility of a different world.

    Rabbi Michael Lerner: Create A Passover Seder Or Easter Gathering For The 99% Rabbi Michael Lerner 2012

  • Just as the Israelites, who were emancipated from slavery in Egypt celebrated on Passover, and just as the early Christians, who encountered Jesus' liberatory preferential option for the poor, began to live as witnesses to the possibility of a different world.

    Rabbi Michael Lerner: Create A Passover Seder Or Easter Gathering For The 99% Rabbi Michael Lerner 2012

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