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Definition of Liberator
1. Noun. Someone who releases people from captivity or bondage.
Specialized synonyms: Emancipator, Manumitter
Antonyms: Captor
Derivative terms: Liberate, Liberate
Definition of Liberator
1. n. One who, or that which, liberates; a deliverer.
Definition of Liberator
1. Noun. A person who frees or liberates. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Liberator
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Liberator
1. An agent that stimulates or activates a physiological chemical or an enzymatic action. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Liberator
Literary usage of Liberator
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1906)
"This made no difference, and Garrison and the liberator were now assailed from
all quarters./ His life was threatened, his newspaper denounced as an ..."
2. My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass (1855)
"I had not long been a reader of the liberator, and listener to its editor, ...
These I got from the liberator, and from those who believed in that paper. ..."
3. The Library of Original Sources by Oliver Joseph Thatcher (1907)
"On January I, 1831, together with Isaac Knapp he published in Boston the first
number of "The liberator." They had not a dollar of capital and had to sleep ..."
4. Men of Our Times; Or, Leading Patriots of the Day: Being Narratives of the by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1868)
"... Address—Advice to Dr. Beecher—Benjamin Lundy—Garrison goes to Baltimore—First
Battle with Slavery—In Jail—First number of the liberator—Threats and Rage ..."
5. The Life and Times of Wendell Phillips by George Lowell Austin (1888)
"The liberator" creates a Stir in the South. —The Might of King Cotton.— Garrison's
Appeal to his Countrymen. — The New-England Auti- Slavery Society. ..."