unfree
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Letters
- 6
Definition of unfree
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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Not free; lacking freedom, especially (historical) of a tenant who was bound to a manor.
“By the time of the Nibelungenlied the word was used to denote a wide variety of usually ecclesiastic or royal administrators, from the lowest, unfree ministerial to an enfeoffed judge.”
“Economically free countries enjoy decentralized power, whereas the power in economically unfree countries is centralized.”
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adj
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Not free; lacking freedom, especially (historical) of a tenant who was bound to a manor.
“By the time of the Nibelungenlied the word was used to denote a wide variety of usually ecclesiastic or royal administrators, from the lowest, unfree ministerial to an enfeoffed judge.”
“Economically free countries enjoy decentralized power, whereas the power in economically unfree countries is centralized.”
noun
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(historical)A person lacking freedom, such as a tenant bound to a manor.
“The commissioners then proceeded to consider the various petitions and remonstrances of the unfrees, and to determine the amount to be levied from each.”
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Etymology
From Middle English unfre, from Old English [Term?], from Proto-West Germanic *unfrī; cognates include Middle High German unfrī (German unfrei), Middle Low German unvrī, Middle Dutch onvri (Dutch onvrij). By surface analysis, un- + free.
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