Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Freely giving; bountiful; liberal.

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Examples

  • Constantine makes a decree at first, Ten eleutherian zreskeias ouk arnetean einai, "that liberty of worship is not to be denied; and therefore the Christians, as others, should have liberty to keep the faith of their religion and heresy," Euseb.,

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • * Ten eleutherian zreskeias ouk arnetean einai: [5445] 1

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • The vail also was upon them, that they had not eleutherian, freedom and liberty in their access to God, 2 Cor.iii. 15, 16, etc.

    Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965

  • Now there was a practice familiar to those times; that when a congiary or any other popular liberality was announced, multitudes were enfranchised by avaricious masters in order to make them capable of the bounty, (as citizens,) and yet under the condition of transferring to their emancipators whatsoever they should receive; _ina ton dæmosios d domenon siton lambanontes chata mæna -- pherosi tois dedochasi tæn eleutherian_ says Dionysius of Halicarnassus, in order that after receiving the corn given publicly in every month, they might carry it to those who had bestowed upon them their freedom.

    The Caesars Thomas De Quincey 1822

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