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liberty | American Dictionary

liberty
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˈlɪb·ər·t̬i/
social studies
the freedom to live as you wish and go where you want:
[ C ]individual liberties
[ U ]Our group is fighting for independence, liberty, democracy, and peace.
 at liberty
Someone who is at liberty to do something has permission to do it:
I’m not at liberty to discuss this with you.

Examples of liberty

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Because this style of counterpoint is very difficult, certain liberties are permitted.
Negative duties thus appear considerably less liberty-limiting than positive duties.
He had described at length how local government stimulated the right kinds of attitudes and customs for the preservation of an orderly liberty.
It was a significant political problem especially for the guilds, because in their view it was a severe encroachment on their corporate liberties.
Debates about the liberty of religious conscience turned into debates about freedom of the press and freedom of speech.
Why was the village head omitted when his accomplices were arrested the next day, and why was he still at liberty?
Nevertheless, and perhaps surprisingly, the central liberty principle admits censorship of certain extraordinary types of expression which necessarily harm others.
Instead, there is a systematic pattern of decreasing ethnic conflict when civil liberties increase.
Here liberty is again figured in opposition to the internal tyranny of appetites.
We take the liberty of sugaring the syntax somewhat so that we may reuse without explanation the more mathematical notation already employed in this paper.
As with human resources, the pressure for freedom generated by liberty aspirations does not depend on the level of these values alone.
Notions of the liberty of guilds, burghers and even migrants remained an obstacle.
Their opponents hailed the importance of civil liberties throughout the life cycle.
It is the basis of under writing the liberty of others, not of obliterating it.
This contributes to the continued precedence of traditional moral mandates over advances in personal civil liberties.
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bulwark of liberty
Is this the protection and the bulwark of liberty for the theatre and the author?
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