[f. next + -ATION.] The action or process of liberalizing; the fact of being liberalized or becoming liberal.
1835. De Quincey, in Tait’s Mag., II. 372. Students seeking only the liberalization and not the profits of academic life. Ibid. (1854), Autobiog. Sk., Wks. II. 24. In all that concerned the liberalization of his views.
1862. R. H. Patterson, Ess. Hist. & Art, 144. The extensive reforms and liberalisation of the government recently undertaken by the Ottoman rulers.
1897. W. P. Trent, in Atlantic Monthly, LXXIX. 53/2. The growing liberalization of ideas which is visible in politics and literature and religion.
