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liberative

liberative adjective: relating to, or causing, liberation; freeing.

Adjective

liberative (comparative more liberative, superlative most liberative)

  1. Relating to, or causing, liberation; freeing.
    • Professor Weems can be placed within all of the approaches, as her work not only looks at the reclaiming of the black women from within the texts in a liberative form, but also rejects those scriptures that dehumanize and misogynize women.2000, Joe Aldred, Sisters With Power, page 119

Forms of liberative

comparativemore liberative
superlativemost liberative

Origin of liberative

From liberate + -ive.

Questions about liberative

What does liberative mean?
Liberative means relating to, or causing, liberation; freeing.
What part of speech is liberative?
Liberative is an adjective.

Words near liberative in the dictionary

  1. liberationisms
  2. liberationist
  3. liberationists
  4. liberations
  5. Liberatis
  6. liberative
  7. Liberato
  8. liberator
  9. Liberatore
  10. Liberatores
  11. liberators

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