Crossword clues for liberties
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Liberty \Lib"er*ty\ (l[i^]b"[~e]r*t[y^]), n.; pl. Liberties (-t[i^]z). [OE. liberte, F. libert['e], fr. L. libertas, fr. liber free. See Liberal.]
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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.
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Freedom from imprisonment, bonds, or other restraint upon locomotion.
Being pent from liberty, as I am now.
--Shak. 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.
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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.
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The place within which certain immunities are enjoyed, or jurisdiction is exercised. [Eng.]
Brought forth into some public or open place within the liberty of the city, and there . . . burned.
--Fuller. 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.
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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.
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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. (Manege) A curve or arch in a bit to afford room for the tongue of the horse.
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(Naut.) Leave of absence; permission to go on shore. At liberty.
Unconfined; free.
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At leisure. Civil liberty, exemption from arbitrary interference with person, opinion, or property, on the part of the government under which one lives, and freedom to take part in modifying that government or its laws. Liberty bell. See under Bell. Liberty cap.
The Roman pileus which was given to a slave at his manumission.
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A limp, close-fitting cap with which the head of representations of the goddess of liberty is often decked. It is sometimes represented on a spear or a liberty pole.
Liberty of the press, freedom to print and publish without 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 liberty of choice which is essential to moral responsibility.
Religious liberty, freedom of religious opinion and worship.
Syn: Leave; permission; license.
Usage: Liberty, Freedom. These words, though often interchanged, are distinct in some of their applications. Liberty has reference to previous restraint; freedom, to the simple, unrepressed exercise of our powers. A slave is set at liberty; his master had always been in a state of freedom. A prisoner under trial may ask liberty (exemption from restraint) to speak his sentiments with freedom (the spontaneous and bold utterance of his feelings). The liberty of the press is our great security for freedom of thought.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of liberty English)
Usage examples of "liberties".
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One observer noted that customs collectors “dare not exercise their office for fear of the fury and unruliness of the people” and that Virginians as well as New Englanders were “haughty and jealous of their liberties, impatient of restraint, and can scarcely bear the thought of being controlled by any superior power.
Let it be known that British liberties are not the grants of princes or parliaments, but the original rights, conditions of original contracts, coequal with prerogative and coeval with government.
Most of the delegates were moderates and “speculative” men (to use Washington’s term), but they were adamant and angry enough to assert “that it is inseparable to the freedom of a people, and the undoubted right of Englishmen, that no taxes should be imposed upon them, but with their own consent, given personally, or by their representatives” and that the Stamp Act had “a manifest tendency to subvert the rights and liberties of the colonists.
This American parliament, with jurisdiction over all colonial legislation, would exercise “all the like rights, liberties and privileges as are held and exercised by and in the House of Commons of Great Britain” but still be “an inferior and distinct branch of the British legislature, united and incorporated with each having a veto power over the acts of the other.
In New York, rebels paraded through the streets “with drums beating and colours flying (attended by a mob of negroes, boys, sailors, and pickpockets), inviting all mankind to take up arms in defence of the „ ‘injured rights and liberties of America,’ according to Judge Thomas Jones, a staunch loyalist from Long Island.
May you long enjoy the love, esteem, and veneration of these states, whose liberties you have asserted by your virtues.
The providential train of circumstances which led to it affords the most convincing proofs that the liberties of America are the object of divine protection.
The liberties of America, and the honor of the Allied Arms are in our hands.
Let me conjure you, in the name of our common country, as you value your own sacred honor, as you respect the rights of humanity and as you regard the military and national character of America, to express your utmost horror and detestation of the man who wishes, under any specious pretenses, to overturn the liberties of our country and who wickedly attempts to open the floodgates of civil discord and deluge our rising empire in blood.
On the prospect of a total failure of issue from King William, and from the Princess, afterwards Queen Anne, the consideration of the settlement of the crown and of a further security for the liberties of the people again came before the legislature.
This act also incorporated, by the same policy, our liberties and an hereditary succession in the same act.
This limitation was made by parliament, that through the Princess Sophia an inheritable line not only was to be continued in future, but (what they thought very material) that through her it was to be connected with the old stock of inheritance in King James the First, in order that the monarchy might preserve an unbroken unity through all ages and might be preserved (with safety to our religion) in the old approved mode by descent, in which, if our liberties had been once endangered, they had often, through all storms and struggles of prerogative and privilege, been preserved.
You will see that their whole care was to secure the religion, laws, and liberties that had been long possessed, and had been lately endangered.
We have an inheritable crown, an inheritable peerage, and a House of Commons and a people inheriting privileges, franchises, and liberties from a long line of ancestors.