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liberative

liberative

7.7
Causing people to become free from unfair control
  • adjective
  • /ˈlɪbərətɪv/
translation icon : liberador
  • The reason it is important to make this distinction is that it enables us to appreciate that the appearance of the conventional self doesn't need to be destroyed by the liberative insight that it is an appearance, or that the ability to withhold assent to the appearance as produced by or grounded on an independently real self doesn't need to destroy the mere appearance.
  • liberative insight

Examples

  • Cultivating spaces for generative connection, liberative liberatory presence.

  • The ecumenical movement in Africa has promoted the liberative type of Christianity, and for this reason, it became the target of attacks by fundamentalist crusaders.

    Academic text (1996)
  • The religious use of language must be interreligious, and it must be liberative.

    Academic text (1995)
  • Liberative theology is preferable, according to him, because it is inclusive, creative, and humanizing.

    Academic text (1996)
  • The Indian upper-caste elite who suffered racism abroad had a liberative channel from that treatment when they came back home, but for the lower castes, there was no such liberation at all.

    Academic text (2005)
  • Martey maintains that all theology must be liberative, and so the opposition between inculturation and liberation is a false dilemma.

    Academic text (2009)
  • Hence, as in the performative logic of Madhyamika, one ceases entirely to seek objective grounds for assertions in the liberative "self-emptying" of love.

    Academic text (1999)
  • And the reason it is important to appreciate this point is that if we think that the liberative insight destroys not just the instinctual belief in an independently real self but also the phenomenal manifestation of the conventional self, then it is hard to see how we can avoid the extreme of nihilism.

    Academic text (2016)
  • The liberative message of the new policy aims to empower marginalized communities.

  • She wrote a liberative poem that inspired many to challenge social injustices.

Synonyms

liberatory
vsliberative
  • Formal
1 7.7

Helping people become free from unfair control

has the power or effect of producing freedom from constraints
emancipative
vsliberative
  • Formal
9.1

Making a person or group free from control

has actual effect of freeing rather than merely intending to do so

Antonyms

52 4.7

Limits what people can do by rules or laws

43 6.3

Using harsh, unfair power to control people and limit their freedom

How Liberating

liberative
7.7
restrictive
52 4.7
oppressive
43 6.3

Surface Forms

liberative positive

Morphology

liberative = liberate (transparent) = liberate + ive

Formed by the verb 'liberate' plus the adjectival suffix '-ive', so the meaning 'having the power to free' is directly derived.

Etymology

The word liberative comes from the Latin root liber, which means 'free'. It shares this root with common words like liberate and liberty, so liberative means 'having the power to free' people or things.