fareworthy

comparative more fareworthy · superlative most fareworthy

1. Having the right to go as one pleases; free to go; capable of leaving (a place); able to depart (at one's will); unrestrained.

   Thus the service-tenant may be legally 'fareworthy' but if he decides to leave the hacienda, a word from the proprietor will ensure his forced return by the police.

   1968, Claudio Véliz, Latin America and the Caribbean: a handbook

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   It constantly happened that the manumitted serf,' said my Talking Friend, 'found his way under the old tree, my father, and he was free and færewyrd — that is to say, free and fareworthy, or with the right to go where he would — [...]

   1886, John Wood Warter, Richard Garnett, An old Shropshire oak