Freedom
['friːdəm] or ['fridəm]
Definition
(noun.) the condition of being free; the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints.
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Definition
(n.) The state of being free; exemption from the power and control of another; liberty; independence.
(n.) Privileges; franchises; immunities.
(n.) Exemption from necessity, in choise and action; as, the freedom of the will.
(n.) Ease; facility; as, he speaks or acts with freedom.
(n.) Frankness; openness; unreservedness.
(n.) Improper familiarity; violation of the rules of decorum; license.
(n.) Generosity; liberality.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Liberty, independence, exemption from restraint.[2]. Scope, range, play, swing, free play, full play, full swing.[3]. Franchise, immunity, privilege.[4]. Familiarity, license.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. Exemption from the stress of authority in a beggarly half dozen of restraint's infinite multitude of methods. A political condition that every nation supposes itself to enjoy in virtual monopoly. Liberty. The distinction between freedom and liberty is not accurately known; naturalists have never been able to find a living specimen of either.
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Examples
- In childhood and youth, with their relative freedom from economic stress, this fact is naked and unconcealed. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Dare you take the freedom of going all over the house? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- By daring hearts is freedom won. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- But, suppose we should rise up tomorrow and emancipate, who would educate these millions, and teach them how to use their freedom? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It means, he added, in a faltering voice, that my brother Richard has obtained his freedom. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- In the first place, are they not free; and is not the city full of freedom and frankness--a man may say and do what he likes? Plato. The Republic.
- Those fisheries, upon this account, have had all the encouragement which freedom can give them, and they have flourished accordingly. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- And if we are victorious, I asked, what then--freedom? Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Excuse this freedom, and use the same with me. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Your ladyship will pardon my freedom, I remarked, in conclusion, but it is said, 'by their fruits ye shall know them. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The freedom of choice which this allows him, is therefore much greater, and the difficulty of his task much more diminished, than at first appears. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- In such cases their internal freedom was maintained by a royal or imperial charter. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- My secret was out; and my only struggle now was for liberty and freedom. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Nay, the very animals in a democratic State have a freedom which is unknown in other places. Plato. The Republic.
- Still she won her freedom bravely. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Politically Islam was not an advance, but a retrogression from the traditional freedoms and customary laws of the desert. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He has scarcely tasted sweet air yet and the great freedoms of the world that science has enlarged for him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Great powers beyond her spiritual functions had been entrusted to the church, and very extraordinary freedoms. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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