Definitions

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  • noun (Russia) freedom

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Examples

  • I was reading an essay on Mark Aldanov in Georgii Adamovich's collection of criticism Odinochestvo i svoboda (Solitude and freedom, 1955), and in a discussion of Aldanov's novel Начало конца (1939, translated in 1943 as The Fifth Seal) he mentions a character, a "professional revolutionary," called Вислиценус Vislitsenus.

    languagehat.com: WISLICENUS. 2005

  • Under Peter the Great there was declared the so-called freedom of mines (gornaia svoboda), according to which the ownership of a mine was independent of that of the land under which it was found.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • Limerick svoboda - Alan Quinlan should be on the bench.

    ireland.com Breaking News 2009

  • There have been no comments. small press spotlight, sarah schulman, maythee rojas, therese svoboda, mary ann samyn, matthew shenoda, sesshu foster, anis shivani, kelly cherry, james magruder

    Critical Mass Rigoberto González 2009

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