liberator
Example Sentences
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By the time I was a child there in the 1980s, the place was bathed in trans-Atlantic mythology and affection for the United States, the great liberator.
As the polestar of Boston abolitionism, William Lloyd Garrison, the founder of the paramount antislavery periodical the Liberator, demanded immediate emancipation, denounced the Constitution as a pro-slavery document, and rejected voting as immoral participation in a system corrupted by slavery.
On Sept. 11, 1942, Hirsch, age 24, and nine other soldiers stationed at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base near Tuscon were in a B-24 Liberator on the return leg of a training flight to Nebraska.
From Los Angeles Times
At the head of the grave was a tombstone that listed Brown’s name, his years of life and the legend “Son of John Brown the Liberator.”
From Los Angeles Times
While certainly revered and being mourned by many in his home county – where he was seen as a hero and liberator – elsewhere people feel he was not made to pay for the crimes committed during the civil war.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.