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from the power and control of another; liberty; independence. Made captive, yet deserving freedom more. Milton.

To set free. [Obs.] Shak.

A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.

Careless freedom or ease; abandon. [R.] Carlyle.

es to principal." Abbott. The great and essential advantages accruing to society from the freedom of the press. Junius.

The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; precision; exactness; nicety; correctness; as, the value of testimony depends on its accuracy. The professed end [of logic] is to teach men to think, to judge, and to reason, wi…

iment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address. A mere rant of adulatory freedom. Burke.

permissible; admissible; not forbidden; not unlawful or improper; as, a certain degree of freedom is allowable among friends.

Freedom from spherical aberration.

The state of being assured; firm persuasion; full confidence or trust; freedom from doubt; certainty. Let us draw with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience. Heb. x. 22.

Daring spirit, resolution, or confidence; venturesomeness. The freedom and audacity necessary in the commerce of men. Tatler.

or happiness; predicting good; as, an auspicious beginning. Auspicious union of order and freedom. Macaulay.

Plainness; freedom from adornment; severe simplicity. Partly owing to the studied austerity of her dress, and partly to the lack of demonstration in her manners. Hawthorne.

Beggarly appearance. [R.] The freedom and the beggary of the old studio. Thackeray.

) To improve to the utmost; to use or dispose of to the greatest advantage. "Let there be freedom to carry their commodities where they can make the best of them." Bacon. (b) To reduce to the least possible inconvenience; as, to make the best of ill fortune or a bad bargain.

Good faith; honesty; freedom from fraud or deception.

a ligament; a shackle or a manacle. Gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder, I gained my freedom. Shak.

A disposition to treat subjects with fairness; freedom from prejudice or disguise; frankness; sincerity. Attribute superior sagacity and candor to those who held that side of the question. Whewell.

Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly.

Freedom from doubt; assurance; certainty. J. H. Newman.