Word Finder - freedom

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The state of being free, of not being imprisoned or enslaved.

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Having recently been released from prison, he didn't know what to do with his newfound freedom.

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The lack of a specific constraint, or of constraints in general; a state of being free, unconstrained.

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Every child has a right to freedom from fear and freedom from want.

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Frankness; openness; unreservedness.

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Improper familiarity; violation of the rules of decorum.

It's my freedom of choice.

Maybe it wasn't the freedom he missed.

Frequently, this includes individual liberty and freedom of expression.

Freedom not limited by anything is the essence of life, in man's consciousness.

I hope whatever you traded for your freedom was worth living like this, if you call this living.

It was time to test her freedom and go for that walk.

At first, I was thrilled, until I realized any freedom I had was now gone.

You have a great deal of freedom for a mere slave.

She gets her freedom and Donnie.

Freedom from that ugly feeling gave her the ability to speak of it lightly for the first time.

I have more freedom than you when I'm not in this cell.

This promotes freedom and self-rule.

He was, too, ever the friend of religious freedom and of an enlightened policy in all trade questions.

It is a forcible plea for freedom of conscience.

Freedom is the content.

What's the good of freedom to me, your excellency?

Freedom is the thing examined.

Here also he wrote Lucinde (1799), an unfinished romance, which is interesting as an attempt to transfer to practical ethics the Romantic demand for complete individual freedom, and Alarcos, a tragedy (1802) in which, without much success, he combined romantic and classical elements.

The grass had been mown short for about five feet on either side of the narrow drive, and a tangle of underbrush and trees lay beyond... freedom, or a barrier?

In the second case, if freedom were possible without inevitability we should have arrived at unconditioned freedom beyond space, time, and cause, which by the fact of its being unconditioned and unlimited would be nothing, or mere content without form.

At the Restoration in 1660 he was arrested for preaching, and after a short period of freedom he was again seized, and he remained in prison for seven years.

They will take advantage of the freedom from financial want that the modern age gives them and will focus on improving themselves and the world they live in.

Pierre's confusion had now almost vanished, but at the same time he felt that his freedom had also completely gone.

In every action we examine we see a certain measure of freedom and a certain measure of inevitability.

The equable temperature of these cellars and their freedom from drought is one cause of their great success; to this must be added the natural virgin spawn, for by continually using spawn taken from mushroom-producing beds the potency for reproduction is weakened.

Franck combined the humanist's passion for freedom with the mystic's devotion to the religion of the spirit.

Enabling people to communicate in a method with which their governments cannot interfere is a force for freedom and peace.

One day I will take my freedom.

He maintains the unity and freedom of the soul, and the absolute obligation of the moral law.

The proportion of freedom to inevitability decreases and increases according to the point of view from which the action is regarded, but their relation is always one of inverse proportion.

The farther I go back in memory, or what is the same thing the farther I go forward in my judgment, the more doubtful becomes my belief in the freedom of my action.

But besides this, even if, admitting the remaining minimum of freedom to equal zero, we assumed in some given case--as for instance in that of a dying man, an unborn babe, or an idiot--complete absence of freedom, by so doing we should destroy the very conception of man in the case we are examining, for as soon as there is no freedom there is also no man.

And so the conception of the action of a man subject solely to the law of inevitability without any element of freedom is just as impossible as the conception of a man's completely free action.

Only by separating the two sources of cognition, related to one another as form to content, do we get the mutually exclusive and separately incomprehensible conceptions of freedom and inevitability.

How have they decided to react to your freedom?

In March 1785 commissioners from Virginia and Maryland met here to discuss the commercial relations of the two states, finishing their business at Mount Vernon on the 28th with an agreement for freedom of trade and freedom of navigation of the Potomac. The Maryland legislature in ratifying this agreement on the 22nd of November proposed a conference between representatives from all the states to consider the adoption of definite commercial regulations.

She had tested her freedom and found it still intact – to a degree.

The Agricultural Holdings Act 1906 conferred upon every tenant (with slight exceptions) entire freedom of cropping and of disposal of produce, notwithstanding any custom of the county or explicit agreement to the contrary.

He feels that however impossible it may be, it is so, for without this conception of freedom not only would he be unable to understand life, but he would be unable to live for a single moment.

When we do not at all understand the cause of an action, whether a crime, a good action, or even one that is simply nonmoral, we ascribe a greater amount of freedom to it.

Paperwork kept Dean chained to his desk until after lunch and he spent the afternoon pacing the courthouse corridor until plea-bargained to freedom shortly before five.

Again in 1820 Aurore exchanged the restraint of a convent for freedom, being recalled to Nohant by Mme de Francueil, who had no intention of letting her granddaughter grow up a devote.

Returning to Montevideo, he formed the Italian Legion, with which he won the battles of Cerro and Sant' Antonio in the spring of 1846, and assured the freedom of Uruguay.

Intuitionalism supposes that there are two realms - of necessity and freedom, of nature and will, of matter and mind; contiguous, independent, yet interacting - dualism.

In consequence of the freedom with which in this work he attacked the abuse of authority in philosophy, he lost his professorial chair.

In like manner real virtue consists in the subordination of the individual to the laws of this harmony as the universal reason wherein alone true freedom is to be found.

But as the city became the recognized mart for exchange of goods between east and west, the freedom of the western outlet assumed the aspect of a paramount question.

There were special privileges surrounding tenancies of these lands, such as freedom from tolls and duties, exemption from danegeld and amercement, from sitting on juries, &c. Hence, the phrase "ancient demesne" came to be applied to the tenure by which the lands were held.

Pierre, on unexpectedly becoming Count Bezukhov and a rich man, felt himself after his recent loneliness and freedom from cares so beset and preoccupied that only in bed was he able to be by himself.

You know Prince Andrew gave you complete freedom--if it is really so; but I don't believe it!