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free thought

noun

  1. thought unrestrained by deference to authority, tradition, or established belief, especially in matters of religion.


free thought

noun

  1. thought unrestrained and uninfluenced by dogma or authority, esp in religious matters
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of free thought1

First recorded in 1705–15
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Example Sentences

Nonetheless, the episode underscores the dramatic extent to which the Internet—once popularly imagined as a digital Wild West of free thought—is now very much under corporate control.

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The mass-midget mind was concretized with the very idea that “free thought” means “free stuff.”

It beguiles the notion of free thought, and the idea that academic freedom stands above political difference.

It would be a time when free thought solved medical and social problems, ending oppression and deprivation.

The Roman Catholics hated her as the land par excellence of Protestantism and free thought.

On another Sunday evening we attended some sort of Free Thought service in one of the theatres.

We believe that free labor, that free thought, have enslaved the forces of nature, and made them work for man.

Every convenience, everything of use, everything of beauty in the world, we owe to free labor and to free thought.

The Republican party said, "Free labor will give us wealth, free thought will give us truth."

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