liberty
IPA: ɫˈɪbɝti
noun
- 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.
- (historical) A local division of government administration in medieval England.
- (go) An empty space next to a group of stones of the same color.
- A surname.
- A surname from French.
- A freed slave surname originating as an occupation.
- A unisex given name.
- A female given name from English.
- A male given name from English.
- A number of places in the United States, including:
- A town, the county seat of Union County, Indiana.
- A minor city in Montgomery County, Kansas
- A city, the county seat of Casey County, Kentucky.
- A town, the county seat of Amite County, Mississippi.
- A city, the county seat of Clay County, Missouri.
- A city, the county seat of Liberty County, Texas.
- A town in Grant County, Wisconsin.
- A town in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin.
- A town in Outagamie County, Wisconsin.
- A town and unincorporated community therein, in Vernon County, Wisconsin.
- A number of townships in the United States, listed under Liberty Township.
- Used attributively to designate various items (especially textiles) sold by (or characteristic of) the Liberty department store in Regent Street, London.
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Examples of "liberty" in Sentences
- In such cases it was not religious liberty that caused the formation of new movements and new sects, but _the lack of religious liberty_.
- A Negro whose soul, galling under the destroying influence of slavery, went forth a freeman, went forth not only to fight for _his_ liberty, but to give his life as an offering upon the altar of _American liberty_.
- II. ii.420 (221,6) For the law of writ, and the liberty, these are the only men] All the modern editions have, _the law of_ wit, _and the liberty_; but both my old copies have, _the law of_ writ, I believe rightly.
- And one thing hath been obtained in this treaty which never before was since the Inquisition was set up here, that our people which trade thither have liberty of conscience, liberty to worship in chapels of their own.
- _affirming the instinct of liberty, _ when God calls them to learn of him how _much liberty_ he gives, and _how_ he gives it, and _when_ he gives it, if they have so yielded to this law of their nature as to make them despise the word of the Lord.
- Constitution, and this, because it is a legal rule to argue down from generals to particulars, and that the "words of a statute ought not to be interpreted to destroy natural justice;" but as Coke says, "Whenever the question of liberty runs doubtful, _the decision must be given in favor of liberty_."
- Since early in the twentieth century, the Court has interpreted the word liberty, which is expressly protected from interference by the federal government by the Fifth Amendment and from interference by state and local governments by the Fourteenth Amendment, to include important aspects of personal autonomy.
- The argument in question proceeds on the notion that government can restrain nothing, unless it restrain the natural liberty of mankind; whereas, we have seen, the law which forbids the perpetration of mischief, or any other wrong, is a restriction, not upon the _liberty_, but upon the _tyranny_, of the human will.
- 'On my life, Stanley, I'll acquaint Mr. Wylder this evening with what you meditate, and the atrocious liberty you presume -- yes, Sir, though you are my brother, the _atrocious liberty_ you dare to take with my name -- unless you promise, upon your honour, now and here, to dismiss for ever the odious and utterly resultless scheme.'
- Thus, a vast concern is expressed for the liberty of the press, and the utmost abhorrence of its licentiousness: but then, by the licentiousness of the press is meant every disclosure by which any abuse is brought to light and exposed to shameby the liberty of the press is meant only publications from which no such inconvenience is to be apprehended; and the fallacy consists in employing the sham approbation of liberty as a mask for the real opposition to all free discussion.
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