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Freethinking   Listen
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Freethinking  n.  Undue boldness of speculation; unbelief.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Freethinking" Quotes from Famous Books



... Freethinker. He certainly was a free thinker in the sense that he was the first historian who did not accept the theory of direct inspiration by saints (still less by fiends), and yet took liberty to admit that the Maid possessed knowledge not normally acquired. Other 'freethinking' sympathisers with the heroine have shuffled, have skated adroitly past and round the facts, as Father Ayroles amusingly demonstrates in his many passages of arms with Michelet, Simeon Luce, Henri Martin, Fabre, and his other opponents. M. Quicherat merely says that, if we are not to accept ...
— The Valet's Tragedy and Other Stories • Andrew Lang

... obscene jest, and a grave argument against the Christian religion, a witty confutation of some absurd author, and an artful sophism to impeach some respectable truth, was particularly commodious to all our young smarts and smatterers in freethinking. But what mischief have you not done to human society! You have endeavoured, and with some degree of success, to shake those foundations on which the whole moral world and the great fabric of social happiness entirely rest. How could you, as a philosopher, ...
— Dialogues of the Dead • Lord Lyttelton



Words linked to "Freethinking" :   ism, rationalism, philosophy



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