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Liberty

noun

(pl. liberties)

Immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence. Synonym: autonomy.

Freedom of choice. "Liberty of worship" , "Liberty--perfect liberty--to think or feel or do just as one pleases" , "At liberty to choose whatever occupation one wishes"

Personal freedom from servitude or confinement or oppression.

Leave granted to a sailor or naval officer. Synonym: shore leave.

An act of undue intimacy. Synonyms: familiarity, impropriety, indecorum.

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"Liberty" Quotes from Famous Books

... her. On coming to her house, she took her pick and shovel, and going to the place at the top of the hill, she dug out of the clay a quantity of while ozokerite, proved her case, and was at once set at liberty. She performed the same service for me, and I saw her dig the specimen and heard her tell the story as I have told it to you. The hill was composed of loose clay and stones. It appeared as if it had been forced up by gas or some ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883 • Various

... it. She was an enthusiast for liberty and revolution. She filled my mind with ideas of the people's sovereignty. She talked of nothing else. She besought me on her knees to join her party, as she called it. She flattered me with dreams of greatness in a ...

— Greifenstein • F. Marion Crawford

... Count de Brensault may not be everything that is to be desired in a husband, but the world is full of more attractive people who would be glad to become your slaves. You will live mostly abroad, and let me assure you that marriage there is the road to liberty. You have it in your power to save yourself and me from poverty. Make a little sacrifice, Jeanne, if indeed it is a sacrifice. Later on you will be glad of it. If you persist in this unreasonable attitude, I really do not know what will ...

— Jeanne of the Marshes • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... beg your pardon, Mr. Ross, for taking this liberty, but I wanted to know you and took the first chance that offered. I have no mine to sell—I want to know you—that's all. I wanted to meet somebody outside the mining interest. I saw you and your daughter at the pavilion last night. She seems ...

— The Spirit of Sweetwater • Hamlin Garland

... we were to make this use of the senses in the time of the strength and activity of grace, we should do wrong; and our Lord Himself in His goodness makes us see the conduct that we should pursue; for at first, He puts such a pressure on the senses, they have no liberty. They only have to desire something in order to be deprived of it; God orders it thus that the senses may be drawn from their imperfect operation, to be confined within the heart; and in severing them outwardly, He binds them inwardly so gently, ...

— Spiritual Torrents • Jeanne Marie Bouvires de la Mot Guyon

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