Adjective

(en adjective)

Restrictive to individual choice and freedom.

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, date = 2004-12-15 , title = Illiberal Europe , author = Emanuele Ottolenghi , newspaper = (The Jerusalem Post) , issn = 0021-597X , passage = 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, totalitarianism, xenophobia, and intolerance - that Europeans have reverted. }}

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, date = 2005-02-20 , title = The Risks in Personal Accounts , newspaper = (The Washington Post) , issn = 0190-8286 , page = B06 , url = http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38527-2005Feb19.html , passage = Unless the administration compels all workers to invest in life cycle accounts — an illiberal but nonetheless sensible idea — this particular danger cannot be eliminated. }}

narrow-minded; bigoted

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, year=1781 , author=William Robertson , title=The history of Scotland during the reigns of Queen Mary and of King James IV , volume=II , page=141 , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=T_oLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA141 , passage=Accordingly, that form of Popery, which prevailed in Scotland, was of the mo?t bigotted and illiberal kind.}}

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, year=1894 , author=John Marshall Barker , title=Colleges in America , chapter=The Planting of Colleges in the New World , page=29 , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=TFhZ9tSOC7EC&pg=PA29 , passage=While they maintained a denominational character, they were in nowise illiberal , and set up no religious test for entrance.}}

ungenerous, stingy

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, year=1901 , author=Justin McCarthy, Justin Huntly McCarthy , title=A History of the Four Georges and of William IV , volume=IV , passage=...the final offer made on the part of the King was that the Queen should have an allowance of 52,000 pounds a year— not, one would have thought, a very illiberal allowance for the daughter of a small German prince...}}

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, year=1917 , author= , title=Political Ideals , chapter=Chapter II: Capitalism and the Wage System , passage=The few who are more fortunate are rendered illiberal by their unjust privileges, and oppressive through fear of the awakening indignation of the masses. From the highest to the lowest, almost all men are absorbed in the economic struggle: the struggle to acquire what is their due or to retain what is not their due.}}

Adjective

(en adjective)

Opposed to change; urging a return to a previous state.

Very conservative.

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, date = 2011-09-29 , title = The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin , author = Corey Robin , location = New York , publisher = Oxford University Press , isbn = 9780199793747 , ol = 25101368M , page = 25 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=CWxIz_Gm9WMC&pg=PA25&dq=reactionary , passage = There's a fairly simple reason for the embrace of radicalism on the right, and it has to do with the reactionary imperative that lies at the core of conservative doctrine. If he is to preserve what he values, the conservative must declare war against the culture as it is. }}

(chemistry) Of, pertaining to, participating in or inducing a chemical reaction.

* 2013 , Brandon Smith, Are Individuals The Property Of The Collective?

Psychiatry extends the theory into biology in the belief that all human behavior is nothing more than a series of reactionary chemical processes in the brain that determine pre-coded genetic responses built up from the conditioning of one’s environment.