Freer
['fri:ə]
Definition
(n.) One who frees, or sets free.
Edited by Dinah
Examples
- And Gerald would be freer, more dauntless than Bismarck. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- If you were to search all England, said he, I don't suppose you could find a household more self-contained or freer from outside influences. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The seeming antisocial philosophy was a somewhat transparent mask for an impetus toward a wider and freer society--toward cosmopolitanism. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The atomspear,' said Wegg, stumping back into the room again, a little reddened by his late exertion, 'is now freer for the purposes of respiration. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Instead of suggesting a freer and better balanced activity, it is a limit set to activity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The equality between her and me was real; not the mere result of condescension on her part: so much the better--my position was all the freer. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- How could he lift Lily to a freer vision of life, if his own view of her was to be coloured by any mind in which he saw her reflected? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Thus our attitude to it is much freer. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Any valid professional aims may often find a freer, if not a richer field, in the provinces. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- She was standing up for the purpose of conducting her clamour with freer energies. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- We don't want to be no freer than we are. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- But he would see clearer, breathe freer in her presence: she was at once the dead weight at his breast and the spar which should float them to safety. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Two aspects of this more general and freer availability of former experiences for subsequent ones may be distinguished. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Edited by Dinah