freedom

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"The idea that one young person who doesn't know my name would be willing to go out and give his life for my freedom is an amazing thing," says White.

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  1. noun The condition of being free of restraints.
  2. noun Liberty of the person from slavery, detention, or oppression.
  3. noun Political independence.
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  • The Englishman will probably say that if in any one province of life more than in another freedom should be allowed to originality of conception regarding the form as well as the substance, the manner as well as the matter, it is in the province of art, always provided, of course, that the artist is sane and not guilty of indecency. —  William of Germany
  • "The idea that one young person who doesn't know my name would be willing to go out and give his life for my freedom is an amazing thing," says White. —  NY1 - Top Stories
  • So soldiers who fight for our freedom are heroes but those who use that freedom are unpatriotic?
  • He forgot that her freedom was about to become an accomplished fact, that the thing she had anticipated was now at hand. —  From the Housetops
  • So long as the minor did not become a ward of responsibility of the State, his freedom was as inviolable as the freedom of any adult. —  The Fourth R
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English fredom, from Old English frēodōm : frēo, free; see free + -dōm, -dom.

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  1. from Middle English fredom, freedom, from Anglo-Saxon freōdōm (= OFries. frīdōm, NFries. fridoem = Dutch vrijdom = Middle Low German vridōm, Low German frīdom = Middle High German vrītuom), freedom, from freò, free, + -dōm, -dom.
 

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