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Definition of Freethinkers
1. freethinker [n] - See also: freethinker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Freethinkers
Literary usage of Freethinkers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Charles Bradlaugh: A Record of His Life and Work by Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner, John Mackinnon Robertson (1895)
"Indeed, I believe there had never been any general association of the freethinkers
of Great Britain until 1866, when it was felt that some endeavour should ..."
2. The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère by Jean de La Bruyère (1885)
""T)O freethinkers know that it is only ironically they are called ... Several eminent
divines had already written against "freethinkers," and about a year ..."
3. Church History by Johann Heinrich Kurtz (1890)
"and to confess to its priests, avoiding, however, all reference to the sect.>
§ 164. PHILOSOPHERS AND freethinkers.' The mediaeval scholastic philosophy had ..."
4. The Three Ages of Progress by Julius Emil DeVos (1899)
""freethinkers" OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. The English freethinkers began to openly
attack Christianity at the beginning of the eighteenth century, ..."
5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... antireligious attitude of the French freethinkers became so offensive to him
that he adhered more and more closely to the objective facts of ..."
6. The German Element in the United States by Albert Bernhardt Faust (1909)
"freethinkers: "It would be strange," says Andrew D. White,l" if the land of
Immanuel Kant did not recognize its form and understanding merely, ..."
7. The Ratification of the Federal Constitution by the State of New York by Clarence Eugene Miner (1921)
"... to the (Political) freethinkers of America." The writer commented that, though
the power and object of the Convention were perhaps a little hazy, ..."
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