verlig

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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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