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noun

Freedom n.

The state of being free; exemption from the power and control of another; liberty; independence. "Made captive, yet deserving freedom more."

Privileges; franchises; immunities. "Your charter and your caty's freedom."

Exemption from necessity, in choise and action; as, the freedom of the will.

Ease; facility; as, he speaks or acts with freedom.

Frankness; openness; unreservedness. "I emboldened spake and freedom used."

Improper familiarity; violation of the rules of decorum; license.

Generosity; liberality. (Obs.)

Freedom fine, a sum paid on entry to incorporations of trades.

Freedom of the city, the possession of the rights and privileges of a freeman of the city; formerly often, and now occasionally, conferred on one not a resident, as a mark of honorary distinction for public services.

Synonyms: See Liberty.

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"Freedom" Quotes from Famous Books

... looking rested and less faded for the week passed in the society of a simple, noble man; the father's gay and debonair, as Amy remembered it—how long ago, was it? And last of all Friend Adam, in gray attire, his broadbrim crowning his snowy hair, his expression one of childlike happiness and freedom ...

— Reels and Spindles - A Story of Mill Life • Evelyn Raymond

... did not know either the Indian or the lover nature. After a time, finding the consciousness of the soundless presence intolerable, she looked up, and surprised on Alessandro's face a gaze which had, in its long interval of freedom from observation, been slowly gathering up into it all the passion of the man's soul, as a burning-glass draws the fire of the sun's rays. Involuntarily a low cry burst from Ramona's lips, and she ...

— Ramona • Helen Hunt Jackson

... Tragedy endeavours, as far as possible, to confine itself to a single revolution of the sun, or but slightly to exceed this limit; whereas the Epic action has no limits of time. This, then, is a second point of difference; though at first the same freedom was admitted in Tragedy ...

— Poetics • Aristotle

... the month of February, while the Press campaign against him was ripening, Sir Charles had little freedom of mind for politics. Yet this was the moment when Mr. Chamberlain's action, decisive for the immediate fate of a great question, had to be determined. Sir Charles had been a conducting medium between ...

— The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Vol. 2 • Stephen Gwynn

... most sincere and earnest wishes are for your happiness and welfare, for this includes my own. Pray much for me that I may be made a blessing and not a hindrance to you. Let me not interrupt your studies nor intrude on that time which ought to be dedicated to better purposes. Forgive my freedom, my dearest friend, and rest assured that you are and ever ...

— Charlotte Bronte and Her Circle • Clement K. Shorter

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