OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 22697

illiberal

Meanings (ES + gloss)
iliberal
Restricting or failing to sufficiently promote individual choice and freedom.
Behind Europe's commitment to liberal democracy lurks an illiberal tradition. Every time freedom has failed in Europe, it is to that tradition - of violent repression, totalitarian…
Unless the administration compels all workers to invest in life cycle accounts — an illiberal but nonetheless sensible idea — this particular danger cannot be eliminated.
intolerante
Narrow-minded; bigoted.
While they maintained a denominational character, they were in nowise illiberal, and set up no religious test for entrance.