[Agent-n. in L. form, f. LIBERATE v.] One who liberates; a deliverer.
‘The Liberator (of Ireland)’ was a designation applied by his followers to Daniel O’Connell, the advocate of ‘Repeal of the Union’ between Great Britain and Ireland.
1650. Howell, Giraffi’s Rev. Naples, 138. I have reverenced him as much as possibly I could, as Liberator of his Country.
1658. Hewyt, Last Serm., 155. The exploits of the Judges and Kings given to the people of God for Liberators.
1659. B. Harris, Parival’s Iron Age, 127. The King of Sweden … was expected by all, as a true Liberatour, or Deliverer.
1835. Lytton, Rienzi, I. i. The future liberator of Rome.
1843. Carlyle, Francia, Misc. Ess. (1899), IV. 262. Bolivar, ‘the Washington of Columbia,’ Liberator Bolivar.
1848. W. J. O’N. Daunt, Recoll. O’Connell, I. 15–6. In … 1834, I was in Dublin, and met the Liberator at a Repeal meeting held in the Corn Exchange.
1881. Academy, 16 April, 272. The invading army of liberators was closely blockaded.
