verlig

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English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Afrikaans

Adjective

verlig (comparative more verlig, superlative most verlig)

  1. (South Africa) politically optimistic and receptive to change
    • 1979, J. H. P. Serfontein, Brotherhood of Power: An Exposé of the Secret Afrikaner Broederbond
      The Hertzog Group supporters were labelled verkramp, and the Vorster supporters verlig. The fact, of course, is that the vast majority of Afrikaner Nationalists were and are verkramp, and only a small minority verlig.

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