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liberalist

Other forms: liberalists

Definitions of liberalist
  1. noun
    a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties
    synonyms: liberal, progressive
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    types:
    armchair liberal
    a person of liberal ideals who takes no action to realize them
    latitudinarian
    a person who is broad-minded and tolerant (especially in standards of religious belief and conduct)
    neoliberal
    a liberal who subscribes to neoliberalism
    pluralist
    someone who believes that distinct ethnic or cultural or religious groups can exist together in society
    Whig
    a member of the political party that urged social reform in 18th and 19th century England; was the opposition party to the Tories
    type of:
    adult, grownup
    a fully developed person from maturity onward
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