(permission) 760; facility &c 705.
scope, range, latitude, play; free play, full play, free scope,
full scope; free stage and no favor; swing, full swing, elbowroom,
margin, rope, wide berth; Liberty Hall.
franchise, denization†; free man, freed man, livery man; denizen.
autonomy, self-government, liberalism, free trade; noninterference
&c 706; Monroe Doctrine [U.S.].
immunity, exemption; emancipation &c (liberation) 750;
enfranchisement, affranchisement†.
free land, freehold; allodium†; frankalmoigne [Fr.], mortmain
[Fr.].
bushwhacker; freelance, free thinker, free trader; independent.
V. be free &c adj.; have scope &c n., have the run of, have one's own
way, have a will of one's own, have one's fling; do what one likes, do
what one wishes, do what one pleases, do what one chooses; go at large,
feel at home, paddle one's own canoe; stand on one's legs, stand on
one's rights; shift for oneself.
take a liberty; make free with, make oneself quite at home; use a
freedom; take leave, take French leave.
set free &c (liberate) 750; give a loose to &c (permit) 760; allow
scope &c n.. to, give scope &c n.. to; give a horse his head.
make free of; give the freedom of, give the franchise;
enfranchise, affranchise†.
laisser faire [Fr.], laisser aller [Fr.]; live and let live; leave
to oneself; leave alone, let alone.
Adj. free, free as air; out of harness, independent, at large, loose,
scot-free; left alone, left to oneself.
in full swing; uncaught, unconstrained, unbuttoned, unconfined,
unrestrained, unchecked, unprevented†, unhindered, unobstructed,
unbound, uncontrolled, untrammeled.
unsubject†, ungoverned, unenslaved†, unenthralled†, unchained,
unshackled, unfettered, unreined†, unbridled, uncurbed, unmuzzled.
unrestricted, unlimited, unmitigated, unconditional; absolute;
discretionary &c (optional) 600.
unassailed, unforced, uncompelled.
unbiassed†, spontaneous.
free and easy; at ease, at one's ease; degage [Fr.], quite at
home; wanton, rampant, irrepressible, unvanquished†.
exempt; freed &c 750; freeborn; autonomous, freehold, allodial†;
gratis &c 815; eleutherian†.
unclaimed, going a begging.
Adv. freely &c adj.; ad libitum &c (at will) 600.
Phr. ubi libertas ibi patria [Lat.]; free white and twenty-one.