free thinker
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The girl lost no opportunity in proclaiming herself a pronounced Free-thinker.
From Up in Ardmuirland by Barrett, Michael
Ralph was a Free-thinker, and Ralph was a great sinner.
From Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
And hang up tulsi and feast the purohit, and take you back into caste again and make a good khuttri of you again, you advanced social Free-thinker.
From Indian Tales by Kipling, Rudyard
Free-thinker though he was, he was also a powerful member of the aristocracy, and little likely to demean himself—for so he would doubtless hold it—by playing the part of Voltaire or Rousseau.
From Selections from Previous Works and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals by Butler, Samuel
This, as far as I could ever learn from their Writings, or my own Observation, is a true Account of the British Free-thinker.
From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph