LIBERTY
familiarity, impropriety, indecorum, liberty
(noun) an act of undue intimacy
autonomy, liberty
(noun) immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence
liberty
(noun) freedom of choice; “liberty of opinion”; “liberty of worship”; “liberty--perfect liberty--to think or feel or do just as one pleases”; “at liberty to choose whatever occupation one wishes”
liberty
(noun) personal freedom from servitude or confinement or oppression
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Proper noun
Liberty (plural Libertys)
A surname.
A surname.
A freed slave surname.
A unisex given name
A female given name from English.
A male given name from English.
A placename
A town, the county seat of Union County, Indiana, United States.
A city, the county seat of Casey County, Kentucky, United States.
A town, the county seat of Amite County, Mississippi, United States.
A city, the county seat of Clay County, Missouri, United States.
A city, the county seat of Liberty County, Texas, United States
Anagrams
• Birtley, Tribley
Etymology
Noun
liberty (countable and uncountable, plural liberties)
The condition of being free from control or restrictions.
The condition of being free from imprisonment, slavery or forced labour.
The condition of being free to act, believe or express oneself as one chooses.
Freedom from excessive government control.
A short period when a sailor is allowed ashore.
(often plural) A breach of social convention.
A local division of government administration in medieval England.
(game of go) an empty space next to a group of stones of the same color.
Synonyms
• freedom
Anagrams
• Birtley, Tribley
Source: Wiktionary
Lib"er*ty, n.; pl. Liberties (. Etym: [OE. liberte, F. liberté, fr.
L. libertas, fr. liber free. See Liberal.]
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. [Eng.]
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.
9. (Manege)
Definition: A curve or arch in a bit to afford room for the tongue of the
horse.
10. (Naut.)
Definition: Leave of absence; permission to go on shore. At liberty. (a)
Unconfined; free. (b) 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. (a) The Roman pileus which was given to a slave at
his manumission. (b) 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.
– Liberty, Freedom. These words, though often interchanged, are
distinct in some of 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition