freethinking

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From free + thinking.

Collins’s Discourse of Freethinking_, put into plain English by way of Abstract, for the use of the Poor, an ironical pamphlet on Arthur Collins’s Discourse of Freethinking, 1713. — The Journal to Stella, Jonathan Swift
Six months before his death, when he was seventeen, he made friends with a political exile who had been banished from Moscow to our town for freethinking, and led a solitary existence there. — The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Hence it follows of necessity, that vast numbers of our people are compelled to seek their livelihood by begging, robbing, stealing, cheating, pimping, flattering, suborning, forswearing, forging, gaming, lying, fawning, hectoring, voting, scribbling, star-gazing, poisoning, whoring, canting, libelling, freethinking, and the like occupations:” every one of which terms I was at much pains to make him understand. — Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, Jonathan Swift

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