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not as conservatives.<br />

liberalize<br />

v. 1 broaden, widen, extend, expand, stretch, enlarge: The<br />

purpose of the law is to liberalize the functions of solicitors.<br />

2 loosen, ease, slacken, relax, modify, change, moderate,<br />

soften: The police really ought to liberalize the parking<br />

regulations in this area.<br />

liberate v. 1 (set) free, release, set at liberty, disenthral,<br />

emancipate, manumit, deliver, enfranchise, (let) loose, let go,<br />

let out, let off: When the enemy retreated, the army liberated<br />

the prisoners of war. After her divorce, she felt like a<br />

liberated woman. 2 steal, pilfer, purloin, take, appropriate:<br />

She was caught liberating some books from the library.<br />

liberation<br />

n. freeing, liberating, deliverance, emancipation,<br />

enfranchisement, enfranchising, delivery, rescue, rescuing,<br />

release, releasing, loosing, unfettering, unshackling,<br />

unchaining: The liberation of the prisoners occurred on May<br />

Day, 1945.<br />

libertine n. 1 lecher, reprobate, profligate, rake, rakehell, rou‚,<br />

debaucher, womanizer, seducer, fornicator, adulterer, debauchee,<br />

whoremonger, philanderer, Don Juan, Lothario, Casanova, Colloq<br />

wolf, lady-killer, (old) goat, dirty old man: He fancied<br />

himself a libertine, but women shunned him like the plague.<br />

--adj. 2 licentious, lecherous, reprobate, profligate, rakish,<br />

rakehell, philandering, dissolute, immoral, degenerate,<br />

depraved, debauched, decadent, dirty, filthy, amoral, wanton,<br />

lewd, lascivious, prurient, lubricious or lubricous, salacious,<br />

Paphian, libidinous, ruttish, goatish, hircine, satyric(al),<br />

carnal, bestial, Colloq randy, Slang horny: A paragon of<br />

prudery to his family, Viscount Guarnier secretly led a life of<br />

wild, libertine abandon.<br />

liberty n. 1 freedom, independence, self-determination, autonomy,<br />

self-rule, self-government, self-direction, sovereignty: People<br />

have always been willing to die for their liberty. 2 right,<br />

freedom, franchise, carte blanche, privilege, prerogative,<br />

licence, leave, permission, authorization: I was given the

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