Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Tending to liberate or set free.
Wiktionary
- adj. Serving to liberate.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. rare Tending, or serving, to liberate.
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.”
“Trangression and transgressive are a long way on the way to acquiring wholly positive meanings something like 'liberatory', 'unconstrained', 'life-affirming', 'joyous'.”
“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.”
The Huffington Post: Rabbi Michael Lerner: Create A Passover Seder Or Easter Gathering For The 99%
“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.”
The Huffington Post: Rabbi Michael Lerner: Create A Passover Seder Or Easter Gathering For The 99%
“But, as LB points out, Derrida's writing was at first taken as some kind of politically liberatory gesture, and so the era of deconstruction and French theory began.”
“What will it actually take once and for all to give the lie to war as a tool for achieving anything positive, and in the process finally to debunk the jingoistic fervor and liberatory propaganda that accompany it?”
The Huffington Post: Randall Amster: WikiLessons: War Is a Joke, But It Isn't Funny
“Of course, it's ironic to cover Freire's ideas about liberatory education as part of a curriculum and it's encouraging when students point this out.”
“Before working in the anti-trafficking movement, I held somewhat conventional liberal beliefs about porn -- it represented free speech, liberatory sexuality, and "free choice," made by consumers and performers alike.”
The Huffington Post: Lara Janson: Tales From the Census Trail: The Price of Peddling Porn
“Thus, we must distinguish ethical from unethical liberatory projects.”
“One movement, sometimes labeled liberatory and radical, Abahlali base Mjondolo ABM, SA's largest movement founded in 2005, is portrayed as vehemently against the ANC's exploitative framework.”
The Huffington Post: Khadija Sharife: Barefoot or Branded Politics?
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘liberatory’.
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... to use these words in spoken English and reap esteem. In the SPOKEN corpus of the COCA (full corpus: 450 million words) none of these occur.
stochastic, disputant, state-led, almshouse, exceptionality, bibliographical, t-test, z-score, personal/social, neoplastic, stroma, ludic and 288 more...
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Story of a Missing "S"
Words that end in -tory. This list is now in retirement and nothing you say will make me add to it. You owe many thanks to sionnach, reesetee, and oroboros for its untimely demise. It was fun while...
obligatory, purgatory, mandatory, moratory, crematory, sanatory, perfunctory, factory, liberatory, laboratory, inventory, nugatory and 46 more...
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