Word Meanings - LIBERTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A curve or arch in a bit to afford room for the tongue of the horse. (more info) 1. The state of a free person; exemption from subjection to the will of another claiming ownership of the person or services; freedom; -- opposed to slavery, serfdom,

Additional info about word: LIBERTY

A curve or arch in a bit to afford room for the tongue of the horse. (more info) 1. The state of a free person; exemption from subjection to the will of another claiming ownership of the person or services; freedom; -- opposed to slavery, serfdom, bondage, or subjection. But ye . . . caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid whom he had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection. Jer. xxxiv. 16. Delivered fro the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons of God. Bible, 1551. Rom. viii. 21. 2. Freedom from imprisonment, bonds, or other restraint upon locomotion. Being pent from liberty, as I am now. Shak. 3. A privilege conferred by a superior power; permission granted; leave; as, liberty given to a child to play, or to a witness to leave a court, and the like. 4. Privilege; exemption; franchise; immunity enjoyed by prescription or by grant; as, the liberties of the commercial cities of Europe. His majesty gave not an entire county to any; much less did he grant . . . any extraordinary liberties. Sir J. Davies. 5. The place within which certain immunities are enjoyed, or jurisdiction is exercised. Brought forth into some public or open place within the liberty of the city, and there . . . burned. Fuller. 6. A certain amount of freedom; permission to go freely within certain limits; also, the place or limits within which such freedom is exercised; as, the liberties of a prison. 7. A privilege or license in violation of the laws of etiquette or propriety; as, to permit, or take, a liberty. He was repeatedly provoked into striking those who had taken liberties with him. Macaulay. 8. The power of choice; freedom from necessity; freedom from compulsion or constraint in willing. The idea of liberty is the idea of a power in any agent to do or forbear any particular action, according to the determination or thought of the mind, whereby either of them is preferred to the other. Locke. This liberty of judgment did not of necessity lead to lawlessness. J. A. Symonds.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LIBERTY)

• Free
• Detached
• playing
• operating
• open
• unoccupied
• unobstructed
• unimpeded
• permitted
• unhindered
• exempt
• gratuitous
• unconditional
• at liberty
• clear
• liberal
• untrammelled
• uncounted
• careless
• loose
• easy
• munificent
• unreserved
• frank
• bountiful
• generous
• bounteous
• Leave
• Liberty
• permission
• license
• concession
• Permission
• dispensation
• allowance
• liberty
• consent
• sufferance
• compliance
• endurance
• Privilege
• Prerogative
• im-munity
• franchise
• right
• advantage
• claim
• exemption
• Scope
• Aim
• object
• mark
• end
• design
• purpose
• intention
• drift
• room
• occasion
• opportunity

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of LIBERTY)

• Forego
• waive
• disclaim
• abjure
• disavow
• abandon
• concede
• surrender
• repudiate
• Tie
• fasten
• hold
• retain
• Chance
• risk
• hazard
• revoke
• Miscalculate
• venture
• stake

Related words: (words related to LIBERTY)

• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• OPERATIC; OPERATICAL
  Of or pertaining to the opera or to operas; characteristic of, or resembling, the opera.
• FRANKALMOIGNE
  A tenure by which a religious corporation holds lands given to them and their successors forever, usually on condition of praying for the soul of the donor and his heirs; -- called also tenure by free alms. Burrill.
• PLAY
  quick motion, and probably to OS. plegan to promise, pledge, D. plegen to care for, attend to, be wont, G. pflegen; of unknown 1. To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot. As Cannace was
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• FRANKFORT BLACK
  . A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath.
• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• CONSENTANEOUS
  Consistent; agreeable; suitable; accordant to; harmonious; concurrent. A good law and consentaneous to reason. Howell. -- Con`sen*ta"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- Con`sen*ta"ne*ous*ness, n.
• INTENTIONALITY
  The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design. Coleridge.
• OBJECTIVENESS
  Objectivity. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light Sir M. Hale
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• DRIFTBOLT
  A bolt for driving out other bolts.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• SCOPELINE
  Scopeloid.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• LEAVE-TAKING
  Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
• PLAYWRITER
  A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
• LONG-SUFFERANCE
  Forbearance to punish or resent.
• DISVENTURE
  A disadventure. Shelton.
• BELEAVE
  To leave or to be left. May.
• HAEMATOSCOPE
  A hæmoscope.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• RECLAIMABLE
  That may be reclaimed.
• LACTOSCOPE
  An instrument for estimating the amount of cream contained in milk by ascertaining its relative opacity.
• METEOROSCOPE
  An astrolabe; a planisphere. An instrument for measuring the position, length, and direction, of the apparent path of a shooting star.