Definition of "illiberalism" [il•lib•er•al•ism]

• The state or quality of being illiberal (noun)

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• "Some of the brighter young Tories have worked out that Blair's illiberalism is an area of vulnerability that opposition parties can exploit."
• "I am sure it was an era of bad food, lower life expectancy, the reek of tobacco and what we would now call illiberalism, but I love it."
• "I want to suggest that "high crimes and misdemeanors" need not be THAT literal either, and that it avails us still to "let off steam," especially the toxic kind of illiberalism that would undermine a pluralistic liberal democracy that the Founders would never, ever have countenanced to be subverted."