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- adjective Before the
liberal period ofsociety , i.e. infeudal orauthoritarian times.
Etymologies
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pre- + liberal
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Yet the flaws of the system were due not to the institution of patronage per se, but to the structure of preliberal, preindustrial Western societies.
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