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liberty
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[ noun ] (politics) immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence
Synonyms Used in print (Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)When I question them as_to what they mean by concepts like liberty and democracy , I find that they fall_into two categories : the simpler ones who have simply accepted the shibboleths of their faith without analysis ; and the intelligent , cynical ones who scornfully reply that these things do n't count any_more in the world of to-day . - liberal considers that the need for a national economy with controls that will assure his conception of social justice is so great that individual and local liberties as_well_as democratic processes may have to yield before it . If he attaches little importance to personal liberty , why not make this known to the world ? (John Michael Ray, "Rhode Island's Reactions...)He recalled that in Rhode_Island a party opposed to the state 's condemnation of a man ( Thomas_W._Dorr ) proclaimed the state 's action as a violation of the law of the land and the principles of human liberty . (Glayds H. Barr, The Master of Geneva....)He is throttling the liberty my father gave his life to win '' ! Related terms |
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[ noun ] freedom of choice
Examples : "liberty of opinion" "liberty of worship" "liberty--perfect liberty--to think or feel or do just as one pleases" "at liberty to choose whatever occupation one wishes" Used in print (Brainard Cheney, "Christianity and the Tragic Vision-Ut...)He terms this early enthusiasm `` Romantic_Christianity '' and concludes that its similarity to democratic beliefs of_that day is so great that `` the doctrine of liberty seems but a secular version of its counterpart in evangelical Protestantism '' . It seemed to me that the liberals had scrapped the balanced polarity and reposed both liberty and the fundamental_law in the common_man . |
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[ noun ] personal freedom from servitude or confinement or oppression
Used in print (R. F. Shaw, "The `Private Eye`"...)By_virtue_of his self-reliance , his individualism and his freedom from external restraint , the private_eye is a perfect embodiment of the middle_class conception of liberty , which amounts to doing what you please and let_the_devil_take_the_hindmost . |
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[ noun ] Woman's first name, popularity rank in the U.S. is 2862
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 13471
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[ noun ] an act of undue intimacy
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