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Independence. "Give me," I cried (enough for me), "My bread, and independency!" Pope.

Expressing or indicating the feeling of independence; free; easy; bold; unconstrained; as, an independent air or manner.

Room; space; freedom from confinement or restraint; hence, looseness; laxity; independence. In human actions there are no degrees and precise natural limits described, but a latitude is indulged. Jer. Taylor.

official supervision. Liberty party, the party, in the American Revolution, which favored independence of England; in more recent usage, a party which favored the emancipation of the slaves. -- Liberty pole, a tall flagstaff planted in the ground, often surmounted by a liberty cap. [U. S.] -- Moral liberty, that liber…

National independence; the principles of the Nationalists.

One who advocates national unity and independence; one of a party favoring Irish independence.

ports the cause of the Greeks; particularly, one who supported them in their struggle for independence against the Turks; a philhellene.

ly pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. The Declaration of Independence.

The most determined exertions of that authority, against them, only showed their radical independence. Burke.

; to regain; to restore from loss or injury; as, to retrieve one's character; to retrieve independence. With late repentance now they would retrieve The bodies they forsook, and wish to live. Dryden

False; counterfeit; pretended; feigned; unreal; as, a sham fight. They scorned the sham independence proffered to them by the Athenians. Jowett (Thucyd)

vereign; the exercise of, or right to exercise, supreme power; dominion; sway; supremacy; independence; also, that which is sovereign; a sovereign state; as, Italy was formerly divided into many sovereignties. Woman desiren to have sovereignty As well over their husband as over their love. Chaucer.

spirit of the times, or the humors of those in power, which implies a surrender of one's independence, and sometimes of one's integrity.