[ad. L. līberātiōn-em, n. of action f. līberāre to LIBERATE. Cf. F. libération (14th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).] The action of liberating or condition of being liberated; setting free; release.
Liberation Society: the current designation of the ‘Society for the Liberation of Religion from State Patronage and Control,’ the object of which is to advocate the disestablishment and disendowment of all established churches in the British dominions. Cf. next word.
c. 1440. Gesta Rom., xcv. 426 (Add. MS.). The contricion that he had in his Ende was the signe and token of his liberacion.
1532. Bp. Clark, in Ellis, Orig. Lett., Ser. II. I. 306. For the liberation of Italye.
1623. Cockeram, Liberation, a deliuerance.
1776. Adam Smith, W. N., V. iii. (1869), I. 515. The future liberation of the public revenue they leave to the care of posterity.
1782. Pownall, Study of Antiq., 155. This mode of analysing requires perfect liberation from all prejudged system.
1800. Henry, Epit. Chem. (1808), 55. Those gases that require, for their liberation, a red heat.
1875. Lightfoot, Comm. Col. ii. 15. A liberation from the dominion of the flesh.
1879. R. T. Smith, Basil Gt., x. 127. The separation of soul and body is liberation from all evil.
1886. Q. Rev., CLXII. 8. The Liberation Society had a balance on its Legacy Account of 10,334l. 15s.
