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Liberty vs Liberticide - What's the difference?

liberty | liberticide |

As nouns the difference between liberty and liberticide

is that liberty is the condition of being free from control or restrictions while liberticide is the destruction of liberty.

As an adjective liberticide is

causing the destruction of liberty; oppressive, liberticidal.

liberty

English

(wikipedia liberty)

Noun

  • The condition of being free from control or restrictions.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-07-05, volume=412, issue=8894, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Freedom fighter , passage=[Edmund] Burke continued to fight for liberty later on in life. He backed Americans in their campaign for freedom from British taxation. He supported Catholic freedoms and freer trade with Ireland, in spite of his constituents’ ire. He wanted more liberal laws on the punishment of debtors.}}
  • The condition of being free from imprisonment, slavery or forced labour.
  • The condition of being free to act, believe or express oneself as one chooses.
  • Freedom from excessive government control.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-12-14, author=Simon Jenkins, authorlink=Simon Jenkins
    • , volume=188, issue=2, page=23, date=2012-12-21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= We mustn't overreact to North Korea boys' toys , passage=The threat of terrorism to the British lies in the overreaction to it of British governments. Each one in turn clicks up the ratchet of surveillance, intrusion and security. Each one diminishes liberty .}}
  • A short period when a sailor is allowed ashore.
  • A breach of social convention (often liberties ).
  • A local government unit in medieval England – see .

    • Synonyms

    * freedom * independence

    Derived terms

    * at liberty * liberty of conscience * take liberties * take the liberty

    Related terms

    * liberal * liberalism * liberate * libertarian * libertarianism * libertine

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    liberticide

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Causing the destruction of liberty; oppressive, liberticidal
  • * 1798 , translation of , An Appeal to Impartial Posterity , First American Edition—Corrected, Volume I, A. Van Hook (publisher), pages 151–152:
    • by a??embling at her hou?e, in ?ecret council, the principal chiefs of that con?piracy, and by keeping up a corre?pondence tending to facilitate their liberticide de?igns.
  • * 1811 January 26, (editor), Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson , Volume IV, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley (publishers, 1829), page 166:
    • The conservative body you propose might be so constituted, as, while it would be an admirable sedative in a variety of smaller cases, might also be a valuable sentinel and check on the liberticide views of an ambitious individual.
  • * 1823 , Public Characters of All Nations , Volume II, Sir Richard Phillips and Co. (publisher), page 502:
    • M. Labriffe is a member of the Chamber of Deputies, and has, of course, voted for the liberticide laws.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The destruction of liberty.
  • * 1819 , “” (pseudonym), “An Impeachment of Modern Italy”, in The American Monthly Review of Reviews , Volume 18, Number 5 (1819 November), page 557:
    • All that has been done by the state since the revolt of May is liberticide of the most violent character.
  • * 1976', , “Jeffersonian Ideology and the French Revolution: A Question of '''Liberticide at Home”, in ''Studies in Burke and His Time , Volume 17, Number 1, Texas Tech Press, page 20:
    • In the hands of a designing executive, a standing army was the classic instrument of liberticide .
  • * 1981 , , quoted in Margot Joan Fromer, Ethical Issues in Health Care , Mosby, ISBN 9780801617287, page 399:
    • In language and logic we are the prisoners of our premises, just as in politics and law we are prisoners of our rules. Hence we had better pick them well. For if suicide is an illness because it terminates in death, and if the prevention of death by any means necessary is the physician’s therapeutic mandate, then the proper remedy for suicide is liberticide .
  • One who causes the destruction of liberty.
  • * 1821 , ":
    • Blind, old, and lonely, when his country's pride, / The priest, the slave, and the liberticide / Trampled and mocked with many a loathed rite / Of lust and blood; he went, unterrified, /
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