Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who advocates the doctrines and practices of free love.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who believes in or practices free-love.
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Examples
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Mrs. Woodhull was called a "free-lover," or did she actually advocate promiscuity?
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In America, the law recognizes only Monogamy; but domestic unhappiness is a prominent feature of our national life; therefore, argues the would-be free-lover, monogamy does not accord with the best interests of mankind.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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Hottentot, no Fourierite, no free-lover, no latter-day-saint, no carping philosopher, superlatively wise in his own conceit.
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Here is an astounding piece by actor, Gary Graham (Star Trek: Enterprise), posted over at BigHollywood. com, about his journey from being a pot-smoking, baby-boom, free-lover and pro-choicer, into being a shell-shocked, "I killed my own children" pro-lifer.
Church of the Masses 2009
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"Jennie explained to me that she was a free-lover; she told me all about free love.
100\%: the Story of a Patriot Upton Sinclair 1923
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"Jennie explained to me that she was a free-lover; she told me all about free love.
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The man of letters who is poisoned by it never writes another line worth reading; the preacher who tampers with it ends a materialist or atheist; the philanthropist bitten by it, from just a plain fool, develops a madman; while the home-builder turns free-lover and rake under its teachings. "
The One Woman Thomas Dixon 1905
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