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Liberty

noun

(pl. liberties)

Immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence. Synonym: autonomy.

Freedom of choice. "Liberty of worship" , "Liberty--perfect liberty--to think or feel or do just as one pleases" , "At liberty to choose whatever occupation one wishes"

Personal freedom from servitude or confinement or oppression.

Leave granted to a sailor or naval officer. Synonym: shore leave.

An act of undue intimacy. Synonyms: familiarity, impropriety, indecorum.

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"Liberty" Quotes from Famous Books

... aunt, is so kind to ask me to take tea with you," she said, "and I have taken the liberty to bring also a Monsieur who is anxious to make his compliments to ...

— Susan - A Story for Children • Amy Walton

... for me to ask of the Pasha liberty to accompany the gentlemen abovementioned, as a battle was expected in a few days between us and the king of Sennaar, from which I would not have ...

— A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar • George Bethune English

... riverside, but to Brutus standing beside the slain Caesar, to Charles Martel with his battle-axe raised against the advancing horde of an old-world civilization, to Martin Luther declaring his square-jawed policy of religious liberty, to Columbus in the prow of his boat crying to his disheartened crew, "Sail on, sail on, and on!" Irishman, Greek, Slav, and Sicilian—all the nations of the world have poured their hopes and their history into this great melting pot, and the product will be—in ...

— Modern American Prose Selections • Various

... him. Set him at liberty, and I will guarantee that you will find him at Fort Garry when you are ready to serve ...

— The Cryptogram - A Story of Northwest Canada • William Murray Graydon

... heard me complain of—but imputations upon my personal integrity so injurious and groundless, that as I think of them now, nothing but the proprieties of the occasion restrain me from denouncing them and their author as I feel at liberty to do in the walks of private life. Mr. President, according to that Christian code which I have been taught, there is no atonement in the thin lacquer of public courtesy, or of private ceremonial observance, for the offence one man does another when he violates that provision ...

— A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 • DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

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