Lib'er-al-ism, n.

n. [Fr. libéralisme, Sp. & It. liberalismo.] Liberal principles or feelings; freedom from narrowness or bigotry, especially in matters of religion or politics.

They show that our forefathers had not learned our modern affectation of a liberalism so cosmopolitan as to shrink from celebrating, in the loftiest strains, the greatness, the glory, and the happiness of England. Sir J. Stephens.