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The quality or state of being liberal; liberal disposition or practice; freedom from narrowness or prejudice; generosity; candor; charity. That liberality is but cast away Which makes us borrow what we can not pay. Denham.

The act of liberalizing.

To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices. To open and to liberalize the mind. Burke.

One who, or that which, liberalizes. Emerson.

In a liberal manner.

To release from restraint or bondage; to set at liberty; to free; to manumit; to disengage; as, to liberate a slave or prisoner; to liberate the mind from prejudice; to liberate gases.

The act of liberating or the state of being liberated. This mode of analysis requires perfect liberation from all prejudged system. Pownall.

One who, or that which, liberates; a deliverer.

Tending, or serving, to liberate. [R.]

Pertaining to liberty, or to the doctrine of free will, as opposed to the doctrine of necessity.

Libertarian principles or doctrines.

The destruction of civil liberty.

Libertinism; license. [R.]

specifically, one who gives rein to lust; a rake; a debauchee. Like a puffed and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads. Shak.

The state of a libertine or freedman. [R.] Hammond.

But ye . . . caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid whom he had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection. Jer. xxxiv. 16. Delivered fro the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons of God. Bible, 1551. Rom. viii. 21.

A mineral of an olive-green color, commonly in orthorhombic crystals. It is a hydrous phosphate of copper.

One given to lewdness.

The state or quality of being libidinous; libidinousness. Skelton.

Having lustful desires; characterized by lewdness; sensual; lascivious. -- Li*bid"i*nous*ly, adv. -- Li*bid"i*nous*ness, n.