unfree

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It helped me to throw off board all patriarchal and feminist ideals that held me unfree, and go to find my own.

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  1. Not free, in any sense of the word free. Below the freeman there were unfree men, serfs bound to the soil and slaves, the conquered foes of past generations and the captives of his own. F. Pollock, Land Laws, i. 16. In no previous arrangement between Christian states had the rule “free ships, free goods” been separated from the opposite, “unfree or hostile ships, hostile goods.” Woolsey, Introd. to Inter. Law, § 174.

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  • The result is that now Obama's economic team is embarking upon picking the winners and the losers in the (unfree) market place by means of its 'stimulus package' and wealth redistribution policies. —  Rational Review
  • We'll have these stupid "party" politics as long as education in this country doesn't teach critical thinking, and as long as our media is unfree -- owned by corporations with their own agenda. —  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
  • The perfect storm of a domineering corporate agenda, state acquiesence and manufacturer compliance could manifest a new era of computing that is restrictive, unfree - and thus useless as a communication medium. —  BC Bloggers
  • The figure - £2m up on previous estimates - is the latest revelation of the true cost of "unfree" data across the economy. —  Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
  • Unlike advocacy groups, for which the number of the currently unfree is paramount, those political economists who participated in the earlier debates sought to —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
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  1. from Middle English unfre; from un- + free.
 

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