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Definition of Free spirit
1. Noun. Someone acting freely or even irresponsibly.
Generic synonyms: Individual, Mortal, Person, Somebody, Someone, Soul
Specialized synonyms: Free-liver
Derivative terms: Freewheel
Definition of Free spirit
1. Noun. One who is a nonconformist or who does not recognize the authority of others. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Free Spirit
Literary usage of Free spirit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine (1909)
"CHAPTER XXVI Of the exaltation of a free spirit, which humble prayer more deserveth
than doth frequent reading LORD, ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"They show a certain rationalistic, as it were enlightening, trait, which seems
to point to a relationship with the Brethren of the free spirit. ..."
3. The Imitation of Christ: Four Books by Thomas (1877)
"Of the exaltation of a free spirit, which humble prayer more deserveth than doth
frequent reading. LORD, this is the work of a perfect man, never to slacken ..."
4. A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages by Henry Charles Lea (1887)
"18)—and the Brethren of the free spirit claimed freedom from all the trammels of
the law. Such a doctrine was attractive to those who desired excuse and ..."
5. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"CHAPTER XXVI Of the exaltation of a free spirit, which humble prayer more deserveth
than doth frequent reading LORD, this is the work of a perfect man, ..."
6. A Manual of Church History by Albert Henry Newman (1899)
"The Brethren of the free spirit are not accurately distinguished in ... It is
probable that the later Brethren of the free spirit owed their origin more ..."
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