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liberatory

liberatory adjective: serving to liberate.

Adjective

liberatory (comparative more liberatory, superlative most liberatory)

  1. Serving to liberate.
    • a liberatory conflict
    • 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.2006, Atenea, volumes 26-27

Forms of liberatory

comparativemore liberatory
superlativemost liberatory

Origin of liberatory

From liberate + -ory.

Questions about liberatory

What does liberatory mean?
Liberatory means serving to liberate.
What part of speech is liberatory?
Liberatory is an adjective.

Words near liberatory in the dictionary

  1. Liberato
  2. liberator
  3. Liberatore
  4. Liberatores
  5. liberators
  6. liberatory
  7. Liberatos
  8. liberatress
  9. liberatresses
  10. Libercourt
  11. Liberdade

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