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单词 liberalism
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Definition of liberalism in English:

liberalism

noun ˈlɪb(ə)rəlɪz(ə)m
mass noun
  • 1The holding of liberal views.

    one of the basic tenets of liberalism is tolerance
    the shift from liberalism to radicalism
    Example sentencesExamples
    • There has been a creeping erosion of the social welfare state, as neo-conservative political philosophy has come to replace the social democratic liberalism of the postwar era.
    • The chronic guilt that defines modern liberalism makes liberal politicians fundamentally unable to deal with terrorists, wrote a US scholar.
    • Despite his cautionary tone, he believes that economic liberalism will eventually win out.
    • Liberalism, not conservatism, was the default ideology because Roosevelt made his arguments in stark and clear ideological terms.
    • The political liberalism of the moderates was matched by their economic liberalism.
    • Toward the end of his ministry, he led the church out of the Baptist Union because of the widening influence of theological liberalism in the Union.
    • Social liberalism is an optimistic creed, which flourishes best in good times.
    • They reject classical liberalism's singularly optimistic view of international relations.
    • He rejected the liberalism of postwar America as amoral.
    • He made a speech in which he condemned bourgeois liberalism and asserted the need for continuing class struggle.
    • The emerging political liberalism in this period centered its attention on the American Constitution.
    • He was in the vanguard of the generation of postwar Arab intellectuals who sought to steer the region toward a rationalist secular liberalism.
    1. 1.1 The doctrine of the Liberal Party, especially (in the UK) the Liberal Democrats.
      working-class support for Liberalism
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Her early radical Liberalism gradually developed into Christian socialism.
      • The issue was fundamentally about whether Liberal Democrats would define Liberalism only in opposition to the right wing.
      • Home Rule thus shackled Liberalism to Gladstone.
      • This project proved extremely popular in the factory districts of northern England, anticipating later working-class support for Liberalism and the commitment to land reform.
      • My own cultural background of Welsh political Liberalism and Nonconformist religious conscience - in indirect descent from Lloyd George - has inflected my approach.
      • An exponent of the new Liberalism, he urged state welfare provision to enable individuals to develop their abilities and contribute to the common good.
      • Liberalism's focus is still very much on the general character of the relationships within the system.
      • The uniqueness of the German Popular Liberalism is that it was a regional phenomenon, while in England Popular Liberalism was a national phenomenon.
      • The refurbished Liberalism of the Edwardian years thus faced many difficulties.
      • Popular discontent with the limitations of Gladstonian Liberalism was also developing.
      • The movement hoped to convert the Liberal Party to 'New Liberalism' and thus to allow the continuation of the Liberals as a broadly based party.

Derivatives

  • liberalist

  • noun
    • The workers themselves faced a double struggle: against the conservatives, who were concentrated around the land-owning nobilitv; and against the liberalists, who were concentrated around industrialists and businessmen.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Of the liberalists, some were desirous of retaining the old form of government, the rest wanted a new dynasty, and new institutions.
      • I am not a liberalist who says anything goes.
      • The Party does not represent a liberalist agenda at all.
      • Feminism has been portrayed in primarily liberalist and cultural terms.
      • His company republishes the works of classical 19th century French liberalist economists.
      • This would only hide the present lack of insight and ideas among the Australian progressivist and liberalist middle class.
  • liberalistic

  • adjective lɪb(ə)r(ə)ˈlɪstɪk
    • National legal systems range from particularly 'protective' schemes to very 'liberalistic' ones.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This is by its very nature a liberalistic ideology.
      • Such economic goals tend to go hand in hand with liberalistic social goals.
      • America fell heir to the liberalistic system which Europe had fostered.
      • This is a conception that also can be found in liberalistic theories.
      • The main plank in the program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual.
      • Can we find a framework of values that could be shared by both the defenders and critics of the materialistic, economic and liberalistic approach?

Definition of liberalism in US English:

liberalism

nounˈlib(ə)rəˌlizəm
  • The holding of liberal views.

    one of the basic tenets of liberalism is tolerance
    the shift from liberalism to radicalism
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The chronic guilt that defines modern liberalism makes liberal politicians fundamentally unable to deal with terrorists, wrote a US scholar.
    • The political liberalism of the moderates was matched by their economic liberalism.
    • He rejected the liberalism of postwar America as amoral.
    • Despite his cautionary tone, he believes that economic liberalism will eventually win out.
    • Social liberalism is an optimistic creed, which flourishes best in good times.
    • Liberalism, not conservatism, was the default ideology because Roosevelt made his arguments in stark and clear ideological terms.
    • There has been a creeping erosion of the social welfare state, as neo-conservative political philosophy has come to replace the social democratic liberalism of the postwar era.
    • The emerging political liberalism in this period centered its attention on the American Constitution.
    • He was in the vanguard of the generation of postwar Arab intellectuals who sought to steer the region toward a rationalist secular liberalism.
    • He made a speech in which he condemned bourgeois liberalism and asserted the need for continuing class struggle.
    • Toward the end of his ministry, he led the church out of the Baptist Union because of the widening influence of theological liberalism in the Union.
    • They reject classical liberalism's singularly optimistic view of international relations.
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