freeest

See also: free-est and freeëst

English

Adjective

freeest

  1. Misspelling of freest.
    • 1799, Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Huntly: Or, Memoirs of a Sleep Walker‎, Kessinger Publishing, published 2004, →ISBN, page 20:
      My personal ease and independence were less infringed than that of those who are accounted the freeest members of society.
    • 1835, Joseph Holt Ingraham, The South-west volume I, Harper & Brothers, page 238,
      The negroes are more animated, as their winter clothing is distributed, their little crops are harvested, and their wood and other comforts secured for that season ; which, to them, if not the freeest, is certainly the gayest and happiest portion of the year.
    • 1852 December, Schwartz Koff, “Conditions of Governmental Development”, in The Yale Literary Magazine volume XVIII, number III (December 1852), A. H. Maltby, page 118,
      […] that England is, next to our own country, the freeest nation upon the globe.
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