Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for FREE'DOM
FREE'DOM, n.
- A state of exemption from the power or control of another; liberty; exemption from slavery, servitude or confinement. Freedom is personal, civil, political, and religious. [See Liberty.]
- Particular privileges; franchise; immunity; as, the freedom of a city.
- Power of enjoying franchises. Swift.
- Exemption from fate, necessity, or any constraint in consequence of predetermination or otherwise; as, the freedom of the will.
- Any exemption from constraint or control.
- Ease or facility of doing any thing. He speaks or acts with freedom.
- Frankness; boldness. He addressed his audience with freedom.
- License; improper familiarity; violation of the rules of decorum; with a plural. Beware of what are called innocent freedoms.
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