Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A woman not a slave.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who is not a serf or a slave
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Examples
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I really think that this is where the name comes from, with the feminine ending -θa attached as we see in lautniθa 'freewoman'.
Archive 2007-09-01 2007
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Daisy could have been a freewoman, but at this time it is more likely she was a slave.
Drums Along the Mohawk - 1939 Jacqueline T Lynch 2009
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Some slave wrangler could take them away, and it would be very hard for any freeman or freewoman to enforce his or her legal status.
Barbara J. Nelson: I Am Like a Free Person of Color in a Slave State 2009
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Proctor heads by sea to Europe with black freewoman Lydia pretending to be his slave.
Demon Redcoat-C.C. Finlay « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2009
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Daisy could have been a freewoman, but at this time it is more likely she was a slave.
Archive 2009-07-01 Jacqueline T Lynch 2009
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They should be castrated at birth. quote by freewoman on jihadwatch Nov 14.
Think Progress » Ellison Takes Swearing-In Photograph With Koran 2007
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Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
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But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
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But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
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For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
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