freeness
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
freeness (usually uncountable, plural freenesses)
- The state or condition of being free (unconstrained, unconfined, unincumbered, unobstructed, or free-spirited).
- 1722, Benjamin Franklin (as Silence Dogood), "Silence Dogood, No. 8", The New-England Courant, July 9, 1722:
- Whoever would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation, must begin by subduing the Freeness of Speech; a Thing terrible to Publick Traytors.[sic]
- 2021, Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland, #Merky Books, page 163:
- Vern could appreciate his freeness. He was a spirited, buoyant thing.
- 1722, Benjamin Franklin (as Silence Dogood), "Silence Dogood, No. 8", The New-England Courant, July 9, 1722:
- Openness; unreservedness; frankness; ingenuousness; candor.
- The freeness of a confession.
- Liberality; generosity.
- The freeness in giving.
- Gratuitousness.
- The freeness of divine grace.
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References edit
- freeness in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
- “freeness”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.