The purpose of these men was to liberalize the thought of the Church.
"Brief History of English and American Literature"
Henry A. Beers
I don't believe you know how a few of us have struggled to liberalize this city and raise its society a little above that of a country village."
"With Edge Tools"
Hobart Chatfield-Taylor
But, while a sweeter and more humane moral feeling tries to liberalize the church, the sombre voice of Savonarola, hardened by the terrible corruption of manners, mounts ever more menacingly: "Oh, Italy!
"Contemporary Russian Novelists"
Serge Persky