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liberatory en · ADJ

Etymology

From liberate + -ory.

Meanings

1. Serving to liberate.
   • In the case of Rothbard, for example, crusader's faith in the efficiency and liberatory potential of the invisible hand is resolutely resistant to the piled-up evidence that it's a catastrophe for the many. 2022, China Miéville, chapter 6, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC:
   • One of the difficulties facing efforts to constitute a radicalized articulation of ecology remains that nature has been more firmly affixed to hegemonic discourses, e.g. consumerism or "resourceism" than to liberatory discourses. 2006, Atenea, volumes 26-27:
   • a liberatory conflict

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