Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In British politics, one who is in favor of the disestablishment of the Church.
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- noun A person who works or advocates for
liberation
Etymologies
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Examples
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Democracy is the god that failed to accomplish its ostensible goals everywhere the U.S. has intervened but the real objective of our 'liberationist' foreign policy is well on the way to being achieved
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Democracy: The God That Failed In Iraq, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan 2005
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It promises to be quite the laudatory affair in honor of this "liberationist" movement in theology.
Cosmos-Liturgy-Sex 2008
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It promises to be quite the laudatory affair in honor of this "liberationist" movement in theology.
Cosmos-Liturgy-Sex 2008
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1988 - In his "Why Organize?" essay, Obama planned to politically organize "liberationist" black churches.
Latest Articles 2008
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1988 - In his "Why Organize?" essay, Obama planned to politically organize "liberationist" black churches.
Latest Articles 2008
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Women have played significant roles within political organizations, liberationist or Islamist, yet they have most of the time been excluded as soon as the revolutionaries or the Islamists came to power.
Raghida Dergham: The Role of Women in Arab Post-Revolutionary Regimes Raghida Dergham 2011
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Many were initially led by small groups of committed individuals with liberationist goals, developed broad popular support, sometimes suddenly as in Ireland after World War I and in Cuba in 1958, and sometimes over an extended period of time, had difficulty establishing democratic institutions after achieving power, and then deteriorated into dictatorships responsible for human rights abuses.
Alan Singer: 'You Say You Want a Revolution' Alan Singer 2011
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Many were initially led by small groups of committed individuals with liberationist goals, developed broad popular support, sometimes suddenly as in Ireland after World War I and in Cuba in 1958, and sometimes over an extended period of time, had difficulty establishing democratic institutions after achieving power, and then deteriorated into dictatorships responsible for human rights abuses.
Alan Singer: 'You Say You Want a Revolution' Alan Singer 2011
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The powerful liberationist, patriotic and ecumenical energies driving Arab protest movements have not been harnessed by organized political parties.
Ziad J. Asali, M.D.: Arabs Deserve a Party of the Citizen M.D. Ziad J. Asali 2012
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Women have played significant roles within political organizations, liberationist or Islamist, yet they have most of the time been excluded as soon as the revolutionaries or the Islamists came to power.
Raghida Dergham: The Role of Women in Arab Post-Revolutionary Regimes Raghida Dergham 2011
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