freest

adjwithout charge

adjunrestrained personally
adjunrestrained politically
adjnot busy; unoccupied
adjgenerous, unsparing

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Word Origin & History

Old English freo "free, exempt from, not in bondage," also "noble; joyful," from Proto-Germanic *frijaz (cf. Old Frisian fri, Old Saxon and Old High German vri, German frei, Dutch vrij, Gothic freis "free"), from PIE *prijos "dear, beloved," from root *pri- "to love" (cf. Sanskrit priyah "own, dear, beloved," priyate "loves;" Old Church Slavonic prijati "to help," prijatelji "friend;" Welsh rhydd "free").

The primary sense seems to have been "beloved, friend, to love;" which in some languages (notably Germanic and Celtic) developed also a sense of "free," perhaps from the terms "beloved" or "friend" being applied to the free members of one's clan (as opposed to slaves, cf. Latin liberi, meaning both "free" and "children").

Cf. Gothic frijon "to love;" Old English freod "affection, friendship," friga "love," friðu "peace;" Old Norse friðr, German Friede "peace;" Old English freo "wife;" Old Norse Frigg "wife of Odin," literally "beloved" or "loving;" Middle Low German vrien "to take to wife, Dutch vrijen, German freien "to woo."

Of nations, "not subject to foreign rule or to despotism," it is recorded from late 14c. (Free world "non-communist nations" attested from 1950.) Sense of "given without cost" is 1580s, from notion of "free of cost." Free lunch, originally offered in bars to draw in business, by 1850, American English. Free pass on railways, etc., attested by 1850. Free speech in Britain used of a privilege in Parliament since the time of Henry VIII. In U.S., as a civil right, it became a prominent phrase in the debates over the Gag Rule (1836).

Free enterprise recorded from 1890; free trade is from 1823. Free will is from early 13c. Free association in psychology is from 1899. Free love "sexual liberation" attested from 1822. Free range (adj.) is attested by 1960. Free and easy "unrestrained" is from 1690s.

Example Sentences for freest

This individualism has had the freest play, and we are not likely to lose all that it has given us.

Poetry is like all art, difficult even in its freest interval.

Love is always truest and sweetest and noblest where it is freest.

The real service to democracy is the fullest, freest expression of talent.

And it gives us the freest government anywhere in the galaxy.

The Canadien was, in abuse, the freest of any paper in the province.

This is not to deny them the freest and most liberal institutions they are capable of sustaining.

How to be the freest and therefore the best people that have ever lived?

There, señor, that corner you will find the freest from inconvenience.

What boy would not be an Indian for a while when he thinks of the freest life in the world?

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