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Definition of illiberalism
: opposition to or lack of liberalism
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Examples of illiberalism in a Sentence
a woman who fails to see that her unexamined faith in political liberalism actually makes her guilty of illiberalism
Recent Examples of illiberalism from the Web
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That calls for a two-track approach: leaning harder on governments that tolerate lawlessness or illiberalism, and renewing the commitment to enlargement.
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But of course the election does not matter for France alone: Macron trounced Marine Le Pen, his radically anti-liberal opponent, at a moment when illiberalism was on the march across the West.
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The graduates of Berkeley, and other universities enduring similar moments of illiberalism, will go on to become the political leaders, activists, business leaders, doctors, lawyers, artists and writers of tomorrow.
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New York When a mob at Vermont’s Middlebury College shut down a speech by social scientist Charles Murray a few weeks ago, most of us saw it as another instance of campus illiberalism.
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New York When a mob at Vermont’s Middlebury College shut down a speech by social scientist Charles Murray a few weeks ago, most of us saw it as another instance of campus illiberalism.
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Modi’s particular form of illiberalism bears reflection because parallels are often drawn between the democracies of India and America, and for good reason.
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First Known Use of illiberalism
1839
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