Definition for FREE'NESS

FREE'NESS, n.

  1. The state or quality of being free, unconstrained, unconfined, unincumbered, or unobstructed.
  2. Openness; unreservedness; frankness; ingenuousness; candor; as, the freeness of a confession.
  3. Liberality; generosity; as, freeness in giving. Spratt.
  4. Gratuitousness; as, the freeness of divine grace.

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