Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of scot-free.
[…] albeit well knowne that they escaped not scotfrée, […]
1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “(please specify the page)”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC2 more examples
To ſay the Ieſuites are all ſmattred vvith Atheiſme, I vvill not: and to ſay, that any of them all are abſolutely ſcotfree from it, I cannot: it is ſo repugnant from their ovvne principles.
1602, William Watson, “The IIII. Article”, in A Decacordon of Ten Quodlibeticall Questions Concerning Religion and State: […], [London]: […] [Richard Field], →OCLC, page 110[…]but in the actual situation how would you not seem to act outrageously if you are to let go scotfree the men who confess that they have been acting illegally?
1915, George Willis Botsford, Hellenic Civilization, page 429
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