freedom
pronunciation
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Word Origin
- freedom (n.)
- Old English freodom "power of self-determination, state of free will; emancipation from slavery, deliverance;" see free (adj.) + -dom. Meaning "exemption from arbitrary or despotic control, civil liberty" is from late 14c. Meaning "possession of particular privileges" is from 1570s. Similar formation in Old Frisian fridom, Dutch vrijdom, Middle Low German vridom. Freedom-rider recorded 1961 in reference to civil rights activists in U.S. trying to integrate bus lines. It has been said by some physicians, that life is a forced state. The same may be said of freedom. It requires efforts, it presupposes mental and moral qualities of a high order to be generally diffused in the society where it exists. [John C. Calhoun, speech, U.S. House of Representatives, Jan. 31, 1816] Freedom fighter attested by 1903 (originally with reference to Cuba). Freedom-loving (adj.) is from 1841.
Example
- 1. That creative freedom has led to some innovative solutions .
- 2. Do you really think that jihadists will bring freedom ? "
- 3. Does freedom group not facilitate social injury ?
- 4. But the opposition , they 're not about freedom , either .
- 5. He demanded that freedom going in , and the show is successful for that reason .