freest
English
Adjective
freest
- superlative form of free: most free
- 1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book IV, ch.20, section 4, :
- And, however they may seem high and great, [these people] are confined to narrowness of thought, and enslaved in that which should be the freest part of man, their understandings.
- 1776, Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, Book IV, :
- The small quantity of corn imported even in times of the greatest scarcity, may satisfy our farmers that they can have nothing to fear from the freest importation.
- 1861, John Stewart Mill, The Subjection of Women, Transaction 2001, p. 177:
- For my own part, however, I desire to say that I am in favour of removing, not only this, but all legal impediments whatever, to the freest choice by women of a career whether in political or civil life.
- 1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book IV, ch.20, section 4, :
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