A state of exemption from the power or control of another; liberty; exemption from slavery, servitude or confinement. Freedom is personal, civil, political, and religious.

Particular privileges; franchise; immunity; as the freedom of a city .

Power of enjoying franchises./ .

Exemption from fate, necessity, or any constraint in consequence of predetermination or otherwise; as the freedom of the will.

Any exemption from constraint or control.

Ease or facility of doing any thing. He speaks or acts with freedom.

Frankness; boldness. He addressed his audience with freedom.

License; improper familiarity; violation of the rules of decorum; with a plural. Beware of what are called innocent freedoms.