liberatory

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liberatory (comparative more liberatory, superlative most liberatory)

  1. Serving to liberate.
    a liberatory conflict
    • 2006, Atenea, volumes 26-27:
      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.
    • 2022, China Miéville, chapter 6, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC:
      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.

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