What is the difference between moderate and liberal?
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Not excessive; acting in moderation
* Jonathan Swift
Mediocre
Average priced; standard-deal
Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle.
* Walter
(US, politics) Having an intermediate position between liberal and conservative.
One who holds an intermediate position between extremes, as in politics.
To reduce the excessiveness of (something)
* Arbuthnot
* Spenser
To become less excessive
To preside over (something) as a moderator
To act as a moderator; to assist in bringing to compromise
, mechanical); worthy, befitting a gentleman.
* 1983', David Leslie Wagner, ''The Seven '''liberal arts in the Middle Ages
* 1997 , Gordon D. Morgan, Toward an American Sociology: Questioning the European Construct (ISBN 0275949990), page 45:
* 2008 , Donal G. Mulcahy, The Educated Person: Toward a New Paradigm for Liberal Education (ISBN 0742561224)
Generous, willing to give unsparingly;.
* 2005 , John Gardner, Assessment and Learning (ISBN 141291051X), page 50:
* 2007 , Helena Page Schrader, The English Templar (ISBN 0595432719), page 309:
* 2010 , Simon Guillebaud, More Than Conquerors: A Call to Radical Discipleship (ISBN 1854249738), page 142:
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, title= Ample, abundant; generous in quantity.
* 1896 , in Ice and refrigeration , volume 11, page 93:
* 2009 , R. Furman Kenney, Chesterville: The Village at the End of the Road (ISBN 1438960344), page 102:
* 2011 , Marlene Perez, Dead Is Not an Option (ISBN 0547345933), page 37:
(obsolete) Unrestrained, licentious.
* 1599 ,
Widely open to new ideas, willing to depart from established opinions or conventions; permissive.
(politics) Open to political or social changes and reforms associated with either classical or modern liberalism.
One with liberal views, supporting individual liberty (see ).
(US) Someone left-wing; one with a left-wing ideology.
A supporter of any of several liberal parties.
(UK) One who favors individual voting rights, human and civil rights, and laissez-faire markets .
Moderate is a coordinate term of liberal.
As adjectives the difference between liberal and moderate
is that liberal is pertaining to those arts and sciences the study of which was considered "worthy of a free man" (as opposed to {{term|servile|lang=en}}, {{term|lang=en|vocational}}, {{term|mechanical|lang=en}}); worthy, befitting a gentleman while moderate is not excessive; acting in moderation.As nouns the difference between liberal and moderate
is that liberal is one with liberal views, supporting individual liberty (see Wikipedia's article on Liberalism) while moderate is one who holds an intermediate position between extremes, as in politics.As a proper noun Liberal
is a member or supporter of a Liberal Party.As a verb moderate is
to reduce the excessiveness of (something.moderate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- moderate language
- a moderate Calvinist
- travelling at a moderate speed
- A number of moderate members managed to obtain a majority in a thin house.
- a moderate winter
- moderate showers
Derived terms
* moderately * moderatenessSynonyms
* See also * See alsoNoun
(wikipedia moderate) (en noun)- ''While the moderates usually propose political compromise, it's often only achieved when the extremists allow them so
- The moderates are the natural advocates of ecumenism against the fanatics of their churches.
Verb
(moderat)- to moderate rage, action, desires, etc.
- By its astringent quality, it moderates the relaxing quality of warm water.
- To moderate stiff minds disposed to strive.
- to moderate a synod
Synonyms
* (reduce excesses ) temperate * (preside ) arbitrate, chairDerived terms
* moderation * moderatingReferences
* * English heteronyms ----liberal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Americans remain enamored with Europe's ability to produce the consequential thought for America. It was the same in nearly every liberal field. Education sought its roots in such Europeans as Froebel, Frobenius, and Rousseau. Political science tried to connect to Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Nietzsche, Machiavelli, and Otto von Bismarck, for instance. Economics copied the thought of Adam Smith,
- When he shows improvement she is liberal with her praise and then moves on to the next set of skills to be learnt.
- Queen Isabella was already being called Santa Isabella by many of her subjects because she was liberal with her alms.
- Was it because the believers were so liberal' with their possessions that God was so ' liberal with his grace?
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- For this reason a liberal' amount of piping should be used. If a ' liberal supply of piping is provided at first, the first cost will of course be greater, but the extra expenditure is called for but once.
- The result was usually that such helpers got a liberal sprinkling of mud over their clothing.
- Rose put a steaming cup of mint tea in front of me and spooned a liberal helping of honey into it.
- Myself, my brother, and this grieved count,
- Did see her, hear her, at that hour last night,
- Talk with a ruffian at her chamber-window;
- Who hath indeed, most like a liberal villain,
- Confess'd the vile encounters they have had
- A thousand times in secret.
- Younger people tend to be more liberal than older people.