freedom

Roget category 748

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.6. General intersocial volition
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#748. Freedom

noun

freedom, liberty, independence — license etc. (permission) 760 — facility etc. 705.
scope, range, latitude, play — free play, full play, free scope, full scope — free stage and no favor — swing, full swing, elbowroom, margin, rope, wide berth — Liberty Hall.
franchise, denization^† — free man, freed man, livery man — denizen.
autonomy, self-government, liberalism, free trade — noninterference etc. 706 — Monroe Doctrine [U.S.].
immunity, exemption — emancipation etc. (liberation) 750 — enfranchisement, affranchisement^†.
free land, freehold — allodium^† — frankalmoigne [Fr.], mortmain [Fr.].
bushwhacker — freelance, free thinker, free trader — independent.

verb

be free etc. adj. — have scope etc. n., have the run of, have one's own way, have a will of one's own, have one's fling — do what one likes, do what one wishes, do what one pleases, do what one chooses — go at large, feel at home, paddle one's own canoe — stand on one's legs, stand on one's rights — shift for oneself.
take a liberty — make free with, make oneself quite at home — use a freedom — take leave, take French leave.
set free etc. (liberate) 750 — give a loose to etc. (permit) 760 — allow scope etc. n.. to, give scope etc. n.. to — give a horse his head.
make free of — give the freedom of, give the franchise — enfranchise, affranchise^†.
laisser faire [Fr.], laisser aller [Fr.] — live and let live — leave to oneself — leave alone, let alone.

adjective

free, free as air — out of harness, independent, at large, loose, scot-free — left alone, left to oneself.
in full swing — uncaught, unconstrained, unbuttoned, unconfined, unrestrained, unchecked, unprevented^†, unhindered, unobstructed, unbound, uncontrolled, untrammeled.
unsubject^†, ungoverned, unenslaved^†, unenthralled^†, unchained, unshackled, unfettered, unreined^†, unbridled, uncurbed, unmuzzled.
unrestricted, unlimited, unmitigated, unconditional — absolute — discretionary etc. (optional) 600.
unassailed, unforced, uncompelled.
unbiassed^†, spontaneous.
free and easy — at ease, at one's ease — degage [Fr.], quite at home — wanton, rampant, irrepressible, unvanquished^†.
exempt — freed etc. 750 — freeborn — autonomous, freehold, allodial^† — gratis etc. 815 — eleutherian^†.
unclaimed, going a begging.

adverb

freely etc. adj. — ad libitum etc. (at will) 600.

phrase

ubi libertas ibi patria [Lat.] — free white and twenty-one.

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