Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Illiberality.

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

  • noun rare Illiberality.

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  • noun The state or quality of being illiberal

Etymologies

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illiberal +‎ -ism

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Examples

  • Some of the brighter young Tories have worked out that Blair's illiberalism is an area of vulnerability that opposition parties can exploit.

    Archive 2005-06-01 2005

  • Some of the brighter young Tories have worked out that Blair's illiberalism is an area of vulnerability that opposition parties can exploit.

    I won't say my mother-in-law's fat 2005

  • I am sure it was an era of bad food, lower life expectancy, the reek of tobacco and what we would now call illiberalism, but I love it.

    Home 2009

  • I want to suggest that "high crimes and misdemeanors" need not be THAT literal either, and that it avails us still to "let off steam," especially the toxic kind of illiberalism that would undermine a pluralistic liberal democracy that the Founders would never, ever have countenanced to be subverted.

    Balkinization 2006

  • I want to suggest that "high crimes and misdemeanors" need not be THAT literal either, and that it avails us still to "let off steam," especially the toxic kind of illiberalism that would undermine a pluralistic liberal democracy that the Founders would never, ever have countenanced to be subverted.

    Balkinization 2006

  • I want to suggest that "high crimes and misdemeanors" need not be THAT literal either, and that it avails us still to "let off steam," especially the toxic kind of illiberalism that would undermine a pluralistic liberal democracy that the Founders would never, ever have countenanced to be subverted.

    Balkinization 2006

  • I want to suggest that "high crimes and misdemeanors" need not be THAT literal either, and that it avails us still to "let off steam," especially the toxic kind of illiberalism that would undermine a pluralistic liberal democracy that the Founders would never, ever have countenanced to be subverted.

    Balkinization 2006

  • I want to suggest that "high crimes and misdemeanors" need not be THAT literal either, and that it avails us still to "let off steam," especially the toxic kind of illiberalism that would undermine a pluralistic liberal democracy that the Founders would never, ever have countenanced to be subverted.

    Balkinization 2006

  • I want to suggest that "high crimes and misdemeanors" need not be THAT literal either, and that it avails us still to "let off steam," especially the toxic kind of illiberalism that would undermine a pluralistic liberal democracy that the Founders would never, ever have countenanced to be subverted.

    Balkinization 2006

  • I want to suggest that "high crimes and misdemeanors" need not be THAT literal either, and that it avails us still to "let off steam," especially the toxic kind of illiberalism that would undermine a pluralistic liberal democracy that the Founders would never, ever have countenanced to be subverted.

    Balkinization 2006

  • In political-science terms, illiberalism means something more radical: a challenge to the very rules of the game.

    Does Hungary Offer a Glimpse of Our Authoritarian Future? Condé Nast 2022

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