liberty
- liberty
liberty (
n.) late 14c., "
free choice, freedom to do as one chooses," from
O.Fr. liberté "
freedom, liberty, free will" (14c.), from
L. libertatem (
nom. libertas) "
freedom, condition of a free man; absence of restraint; permission," from
liber "
free" (see
LIBERAL (
Cf. liberal))
The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure it is right. [Learned Hand, 1944]
Nautical sense of "leave of absence" is from 1758. To take liberties "go beyond the bounds of propriety" is from 1620s. Sense of "privileges by grant" (14c.) led to sense of "a person's private land" (mid-15c.), which yielded sense in 18c. England and America of "a district within a county but having its own justice of the peace," and also "a district adjacent to a city and in some degree under its municipal jurisdiction" (e.g. Northern Liberties of Philadelphia). Also Cf. O.Fr. libertés "local rights, laws, taxes."
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