Definition of Illiberalism

1. n. Illiberality.

Definition of Illiberalism

1. Noun. The state or quality of being illiberal ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Illiberalism

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Illiberalism

illegitimation
illegitimations
illegitimatize
illegitimatized
illegitimatizes
illegitimatizing
illeism
illeist
iller
illest
illeviable
illfavoured
illiad
illiads
illiberal
illiberalism (current term)
illiberalisms
illiberalities
illiberality
illiberalize
illiberalized
illiberalizes
illiberalizing
illiberally
illiberalness
illiberalnesses
illicia
illicitly
illicitness

Literary usage of Illiberalism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Papers and Proceedings of the Annual Meeting by American Economic Association (1919)
"... to fear rather than to hope; it inaugurates a regime of illiberalism rather than of liberalism, and yet it is as democratic as anything can well be. ..."

2. P. -L. Roederer: Political Thought and Practice During the French Revolution by Kenneth Margerison (2007)
"Government would be somewhat elitist since administrators made the majority of the decisions, and it would smack of illiberalism with its determination to ..."

3. The World of Matter and the Spirit of Man: Latest Discourses of Religion by Theodore Parker (1907)
"I said last Sunday that illiberalism had come to town and prevails. Wait a little while and see what else illiberalism comes to. It will pass away. ..."

4. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone by John Morley (1911)
"'I can now see plainly enough,' he said sixty years later, ' the sad defects, the real illiberalism of my opinions on that subject. ..."

5. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone by John M. Morley (1903)
"I can now see plainly enough,' he said sixty years later, ' the sad defects, the real illiberalism of my opinions on that subject. ..."

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