Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a liberal manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a liberal manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
liberal manner,generously or in accordance with political views associated with theliberals .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb freely in a nonliteral manner
- adverb in a generous manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is true that I do not define “American imperialism” nor do most writers on the period nor, indeed, so far as I am aware does Beisner, although he uses the term liberally in both his critique and his book.
Interpretations of American History Gerald N. Grob 1967
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It is true that I do not define “American imperialism” nor do most writers on the period nor, indeed, so far as I am aware does Beisner, although he uses the term liberally in both his critique and his book.
Interpretations of American History Gerald N. Grob 1967
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Feel free to use the phrase liberally in the next few days, when discussing Gingrich.
Chris Weigant: Predicting Florida: Newt's Petard Chris Weigant 2012
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If our U.S. journalists - and I use the term liberally - possessed your mental clarity and objectivity, it is unlikely that we would be in this mess.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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The word liberally is used not only in James 1:5 but (as liberality) also in 2 Corinthians 8 (to describe how the Macedonian churches gave to help others in need) and 2 Corinthians 9 (to describe how the church of Corinth should sow liberally or generously so they would reap liberally or generously).
ONE GREAT TRUTH JONATHAN FALWELL 2008
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While we are "young" I use the term liberally: my husband and I will live in larger cities.
View 2007
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Feel free to use the phrase liberally in the next few days, when discussing Gingrich.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Chris Weigant 2012
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Furthermore, anyone familiar with Sabean's "methodology" (I use the term liberally) will not expect Belt to see regular playing time in SF any faster than Posey did: as Giant Torture points out, even a breakout ST would still likely have him start the year in AAA.
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J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI from 1924 to 1972, used the term liberally to describe African Americans who spent their lives fighting for equality ….
7.62mm Justice 2008
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J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI from 1924 to 1972, used the term liberally to describe African Americans who spent their lives fighting for equality.
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