[Ads-l] Antedating of "Liberalism"

[Shapiro, Fred]

liberalism (OED 1816)

1815 Robert Forby A Letter to the Right Reverend the Lord Biship of Norwich 69 (Google Books)  I know instances, in which this work has produced its intended effect. Many, on whom it might operate in like manner, will never be allowed to see it; for it has been put into the Index Expurgatorius of Liberalism.

Fred Shapiro

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