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Illiberal  adj.  
1.
Not liberal; not free or generous; close; niggardly; mean; sordid. "A thrifty and illiberal hand."
2.
Indicating a lack of breeding, culture, and the like; ignoble; rude; narrow-minded; disingenuous.
3.
Not well authorized or elegant; as, illiberal words in Latin. (R.)





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"Illiberal" Quotes from Famous Books



... so far as relates to the higher conditions of life. As several of our States have already compelled free negroes to choose between slavery and banishment, and as the American settlers of Mexico would proceed principally from States in which the sentiment prevails that has led to the adoption of so illiberal a policy, a third of the native population would, it is likely, be reduced to a condition of chattel slavery within a very short time after the change of government had been effected. There is not an ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 30, April, 1860 • Various
... to guard against over-fatiguing the boy; he judged that hard journeys, irregular meals, and illiberal measures of sleep would be bad for his crazed mind; whilst rest, regularity, and moderate exercise would be pretty sure to hasten its cure; he longed to see the stricken intellect made well again and its diseased visions driven out of the tormented little ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... think your pages should be made a vehicle for "showing up" such of "the herd of menstrual Aristarchi" as chance to differ in opinion from some of your smart and peremptory, but not unfrequently inaccurate and illiberal correspondents. ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 203, September 17, 1853 • Various
... little effect. Dinwiddie was evidently actuated by the petty pique of a narrow and illiberal mind, impatient of contradiction, even when in error. He took advantage of his official station to vent his spleen and gratify his petulance in a variety of ways incompatible with the courtesy of a gentleman. ...
— The Life of George Washington, Volume I • Washington Irving
... abolition of the profession of Christian faith as a qualification for holding office. On this point the line of argument pursued by Mr. Webster is extremely characteristic. Although an unvarying conservative throughout his life, he was incapable of bigotry, or of narrow and illiberal views. At the same time the process by which he reached his opinion in favor of removing the religious test shows more clearly than even ultra-conservatism could, how free he was from any touch of the reforming or innovating spirit. He did not urge that, on general principles, ...
— Daniel Webster • Henry Cabot Lodge


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