DCHP-3

Liberal ((adj.))

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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adj. or attrib.

supporting, associated with, or belonging to the Liberal Party (def. 2).

Quotations

1900
Every province but one in the recent elections has supported Laurier, and nearly all of them went more Liberal in proportion than Ontario went Conservative.
1913
One of the leading Liberal papers had a most caustic article on the giving of titles to Canadians, which it said must be tolerated, owing to human weakness, although it was altogether against the best interests of the country.
1958
When it was being used as a private jitney by a now-unfrocked Liberal cabinet minister, one of the government's big transport planes developed leaks in its gas tanks.