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(uncountable) A set of policies or programs providing advantages for people of a group who are seen to have traditionally been the target of discrimination
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Alternative form of alienor [A person who alienates a property.]
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(derogatory) A person who favours a policy of appeasement.
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(Jewish law) forbidden
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The quality of being authoritative.
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The act or process of having faith, trust, or confidence in.
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The state of being a candidate; candidateship.
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The advocacy of capitulation.
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Efforts to protect the citizens of a state from military attack.
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Civil rights and freedoms such as the freedom from enslavement, freedom from torture, and right to a fair trial.
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The rights that can reasonably be expected by any citizen.
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The state or quality of being commanded.
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(obsolete) One sharing with another in anything.
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A doctrine of agitation.
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The competing interest itself.
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(uncountable, countable) A policy of checking the expansion of a hostile foreign power by creating alliances with other states; especially the foreign policy strategy of the United States in the early years of the Cold War.
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(law) a decree issued on a first petition for divorce; it becomes absolute at some later date unless cause is shown why it should not.
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The peaceful application by a state of resources from across the spectrum of defence, for the purpose of achieving positive outcomes in the development of bilateral and multilateral relationships.
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(countable, politics) A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict.
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(religion) A review of one's thoughts, words, actions, and omissions for the purpose of ascertaining their conformity with, or deviation from, the moral law.
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Obsolete spelling of faith [A trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal from prior empirical evidence.]
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A country that protects the civil liberties of its citizens; a country whose government is not despotic.
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expressions that are or should be allowed in some moral or legal context
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The right of citizens to freely congregate or assemble anywhere should they wish to.
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(law) The right to express an opinion in public without being restrained or censored.
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The right of a citizen to travel within a state, and to leave and return to that state.
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The right of citizens to speak, or otherwise communicate, without fear of harm or prosecution.
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Illegal activity, especially seen as systemic or as part of a general philosophy or ideology.
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(obsolete, nonce word) union into a canton or separate community
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The quality of being judicial.
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Relating to justice; judicial.
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(law) Conforming to, or recognised by the laws of society.
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(figuratively) The act of believing in something despite lack of proof of its truth or existence, or the attempt of something without being sure of its possible outcome.
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Archaic spelling of liberty. [The condition of being free from control or restrictions.]
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The condition of being free from control or restrictions.
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(rare) A situation where everybody can do as they please.
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The freedom to follow one's religious or ethical beliefs.
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(figuratively) The most simple or base shared interest or characteristic among a group or collection of people etc.
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The quality or state of being magisterial; authoritativeness.
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(obsolete) Freedom; security; immunity.
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(law) The status of being nonconstitutional, of not being in accord with the provisions of a constitution.
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(UK, politics) One who gives a negative vote in the House of Lords.
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(historical, Anglicanism) Describing the bishops, clergy and congregations that refused to swear allegiance to William III of England.
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A country or other entity which has limited participation rights within an organization.
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One against whom there is opposition; the opposed party.
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Exhibiting or relating to oppression.
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(sociology, business) The difference between two people that causes one person to treat the other person badly, because the other person is seen as lower than the first.
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(rare, obsolete) A person who prays.
adj
Obsolete spelling of private [Belonging to, concerning, or accessible only to an individual person or a specific group.]
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a security arrangement that is not based on a formal defense pact, but on tacit agreements
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The beliefs and practices of renegades.
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