freeness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FREE'NESS, noun 1. The state or quality of being free, unconstrained, unconfined, unincumbered, or unobstructed. 2. Openness; unreservedness; frankness; ingenuousness; candor; as the freeness of a confession. 3. Liberality; generosity; as freeness in giving. 4. Gratuitousness; as the freeness of divine grace.
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