freeer

alternative free-er · alternative freer · alternative rare freeër

1. comparativeproscribedcomparative form of free: more free

   They wanted to escape the tight framework of thinking imposed by the older rational approach in order to breathe a freeer air.

   2005, David William Bebbington, The Dominance of Evangelicalism: The Age of Spurgeon and Moody, page 148

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   That in restoring again to Scotland the Lands of Huntington, Cumberland and Northumberland, and such other Lands as Scotland did of old possess in England, that Homage should be made for the saids Lands, but as for the Crown and Kingdom of Scotland, they never held of England, and they had been freeer than England had been, who of late had paid St. Peter's Penny, which Scotland had never been brought to do...

   1711, George Mackenzie, The Lives and Characters of the Most Eminent Writers of the Scots, page 313

   It will be far easier for the child to produce a high number of correct determiners than in the case of a freeer conversation.

   2008, Joke de Lange, Article Omission in Headlines and Child Language: A Processing Approach, page 203