adj. having or showing active concern for protection of civil liberties protected by law. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
n. a person having or showing active concern for protection of civil liberties protected by law. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
a. [ See Liberty. ] Pertaining to liberty, or to the doctrine of free will, as opposed to the doctrine of necessity. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who holds to the doctrine of free will. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Libertarian principles or doctrines. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. libertas liberty + caedere to kill: cf. (for sense 2) F. liberticide. ]
n. [ Cf. F. libertinage. See Libertine. ] Libertinism; license. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. libertinus freedman, from libertus one made free, fr. liber free: cf. F. libertin. See Liberal. ]
Like a puffed and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. libertinus of a freedman: cf. F. libertin. See Libertine, n. ]
You are too much libertine. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
That spirit of religion and seriousness vanished all at once, and a spirit of liberty and libertinism, of infidelity and profaneness, started up in the room of it. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.;
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. [ 1913 Webster ]
Delivered fro the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the sons of God. Bible, 1551. Rom. viii. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]
Being pent from liberty, as I am now. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
His majesty gave not an entire county to any; much less did he grant . . . any extraordinary liberties. Sir J. Davies. [ 1913 Webster ]
Brought forth into some public or open place within the liberty of the city, and there . . . burned. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]
He was repeatedly provoked into striking those who had taken liberties with him. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
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. [ 1913 Webster ]
This liberty of judgment did not of necessity lead to lawlessness. J. A. Symonds. [ 1913 Webster ]
At liberty.
Civil liberty,
Liberty bell.
Liberty cap.
Liberty of the press,
Liberty party,
Liberty pole,
Moral liberty,
Religious liberty,