Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Undue boldness of speculation; unbelief.
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- noun The principles of a
freethinker ;free thought
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- noun the doctrine that reason is the right basis for regulating conduct
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Examples
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Now, I've often thought that where "freethinking" is concerned the old maxim "You Get What You Pay For" applies.
November 25th, 2008 m_francis 2008
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Or would you say "The people have decided, deal with it."? although I do not share your worldview and have serious reservations with the term freethinking as well as some of the movements biggest unofficial spokespersons (Harris,
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My evidence for my own freethinking is that I don't buy into either the whole liberal agenda or the whole "con" agenda either.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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My evidence for my own freethinking is that I don't buy into either the whole liberal agenda or the whole "con" agenda either.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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My evidence for my own freethinking is that I don't buy into either the whole liberal agenda or the whole "con" agenda either.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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My evidence for my own freethinking is that I don't buy into either the whole liberal agenda or the whole "con" agenda either.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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These attempts to extend the influence of what was called freethinking and philosophy, were carried on, as we have hinted, with a caution dictated by the timidity of the philosopher's disposition.
Woodstock; or, the Cavalier Walter Scott 1801
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Between them lie many phases of opinion generally labelled "freethinking," which regard the life-story as partly legendary and partly historical, but offer no definite and rational method of interpretation, no adequate explanation of the complex whole.
Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries Annie Wood Besant 1890
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Yet men talked as if, somehow or other, the cause of 'freethinking' had gained great moral support from the conversion of a bishop, though, if the rumour had been true, their new convert had for years past been guilty of the basest fraud of which a man is capable.
Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion" Joseph Barber Lightfoot 1858
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They do call it "freethinking" for a reason you know.
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