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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Conservative \Con*serv"a*tive\, a. [Cf. F. conservatif.] 1. Having power to preserve in a safe of entire state, or from loss waste, or injury; preservative. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Conservative \Con*serv"a*tive\, n. 1. One who or that which preserves from ruin, injury, innovation, or radical change; a preserver; a conserver. The Holy Spirit is the great conservative of the new life. --Jer. Taylor. 2. One who desires to maintain existing institutions and customs; also one who holds moderate opinions in politics; -- opposed to revolutionary or radical. 3. (Eng. Hist.) A member of the Conservative party. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: conservative adj 1: resistant to change [ant: {liberal}] 2: opposed to liberal reforms 3: avoiding excess; "a conservative estimate" [syn: {cautious}] 4: unimaginatively conventional; "a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-gray world of business"- Newsweek [syn: {button-down}, {buttoned-down}] 5: conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality" [syn: {bourgeois}, {materialistic}] n : a person who has conservative ideas or opinions [syn: {conservativist}] [ant: {liberal}] From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: CONSERVATIVE, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others
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