FREE'DOM, n.
1. A state of exemption from the power or control of another liberty exemption from slavery, servitude or confinement. Freedom is personal, political, and religious. See Liberty.
2. Particular privileges franchise immunity as the freedom of a city.
3. Power of enjoying franchises.
4. Exemption from fate, necessity, or any constraint in consequence of predetermination or otherwise as the freedom of the will.
5. Any exemption from constraint or control.
6. Ease or facility of doing any thing. He speaks or acts with freedom.
7. Frankness boldness. He addressed his audience with freedom.
8. License improper familiarity violation of the rules of decorum with a plural. Beware of what are called innocent freedoms.
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