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The state or quality of being humble; freedom from pride and arrogance; lowliness of mind; a modest estimate of one's own worth; a sense of one's own unworthiness through imperfection and sinfulness; self-abasement; humbleness. Serving the Lord with all humility of mind. Acts xx. 19.

State of being illimitable; want of, or freedom from, limitation. Bp. Hall.

The relation of freedom from the interventionof a medium; immediateness. Shak.

Freedom from mixture; purity. [R.] W. Montagu.

Freedom or exemption from any charge, duty, obligation, office, tax, imposition, penalty, or service; a particular privilege; as, the immunities of the free cities of Germany; the immunities of the clergy.

The quality of being impartial; freedom from bias or favoritism; disinterestedness; equitableness; fairness; as, impartiality of judgment, of treatment, etc. Impartiality strips the mind of prejudice and passion. South.

it on; to call in question; as, to impeach one's motives or conduct. And doth impeach the freedom of the state. Shak.

Freedom from agitation of mind; calmness; quietude. W. Montagu.

Exemption or freedom from punishment, harm, or loss. Heaven, though slow to wrath, Is neimpunity defied. Cowper. The impunity and also the recompense. Holland.

Freedom from affectation; naturalness. [R.]

Freedom from confusion; distinctness. [Obs.] Bacon.

Freedom or exemption from decay or corruption.

The state or quality of being independent; freedom from dependence; exemption from reliance on, or control by, others; self- subsistence or maintenance; direction of one's own affairs without interference. Let fortune do her worst, . . . as long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence. Pope.…

Impartiality; freedom from prejudice, prepossession, or bias. He . . . is far from such indifference and equity as ought and must be in judges which he saith I assign. Sir T. More.

Freedom from disturbance; calmness; repose; apathy; indifference.

Freedom from that which pains, or harasses, as toil, care, grief, etc. [Obs.] I have ease, if it may not rather be called indolence. Bp. Hough.

Freedom or exemption from error; infallibility. Eikon Basilike.

The state or quality of being innocent; freedom from that which is harmful or infurious; harmlessness.

Freedom from thirst. [Obs.] The insitiency of a camel for traveling in deserts. Grew.

Moral soundness; honesty; freedom from corrupting influence or motive; -- used especially with reference to the fulfillment of contracts, the discharge of agencies, trusts, and the like; uprightness; rectitude. The moral grandeur of independent integrity is the sublimest thing in nature. Buckminster. Their sober zeal,…