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noun

a person who advocates liberty, especially with regard to thought or conduct.

a person who maintains the doctrine of free will (distinguished from necessitarian).

adjective

advocating liberty or conforming to principles of liberty.

maintaining the doctrine of free will.

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Origin:
1780–90; libert(y) + -arian

Related forms

lib·er·tar·i·an·ism, noun

an·ti·lib·er·tar·i·an, adjective, noun

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Example Sentences

Libertarian progressivism distrusts big increases in government spending because that spending is likely to favor the privileged.

Other than a few references to my libertarian ideological positions, none of the personal elements are all that controversial.

He came off a practical man whose libertarian bent is almost entirely incidental.

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Libertarian progressivism distrusts big increases in government spending because that spending is likely to favor the privileged.

Other than a few references to my libertarian ideological positions, none of the personal elements are all that controversial.

He came off a practical man whose libertarian bent is almost entirely incidental.

Many people that have a strong sense of being a libertarian can actually be better characterized as an anarcho-capitalist.

Speaking of babies, his libertarian defense of individual rights doesn't extend to women, apparently.

Paul is a libertarian, certainly, but more importantly he's a particular kind of a libertarian.

Following is a selection of the scariest quotes from it, for us libertarian types to chew our nails over.

Some people think that the libertarian viewpoint is undone by an increasing acceptance that people are not all that rational.

It's an ethic that libertarian industry leaders embrace openly.

The animal is now a libertarian hero, but officials are concerned.

For someone who styles himself a libertarian and take-charge-of-your-life advocate, he has a victim streak a mile wide.

The details of its plans remain uncertain, though the libertarian in me is instinctively sceptical.

Bitcoin had begun in the public-interested spirit of open source peer-to-peer software and libertarian political.

When government action is required, libertarian solutions can be hard to discern clearly, an economist writes.

If you want a fully libertarian world, you have to be willing to accept the distributional consequences2.

In fact, even a civil libertarian might prefer a world where wiretaps are possible.

He made colourful references to libertarian websites, broccoli and the government's takeover of.

Their basic argument is the traditional libertarian line that government should not be telling people what to.

He is famously libertarian and has long fought against censorship.

He branched out into various writing ventures, usually to propound his libertarian beliefs.

Economists and ideologues prefer to play with a cartoon libertarian vs a cartoon socialist.

On this libertarian view, the terms of a marriage contract should be the partners' business, not the state's.

What these laws, based on civil libertarian principles, overlook is that in mental illness the diseased organ is the brain.

Only a true libertarian society would allow these things.

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libertarian (ˌlɪbəˈtɛərɪən)

—n
1.	a believer in freedom of thought, expression, etc
2.	philosophy Compare determinism a believer in the doctrine of free will

—*adj*
3.	of, relating to, or characteristic of a libertarian

[C18: from liberty]

liber'tarianism

—n

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Word Origin & History

libertarian

1789, "one who holds the doctrine of free will" (opposed to necessitarian), from liberty (q.v.) on model of unitarian, etc. Political sense of "person advocating liberty in thought and conduct" is from 1878. U.S. Libertarian Party founded in Colorado, 1971.

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