ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

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.
749. Subjection -- N. subjection; dependence, dependency; subordination; thrall,
thralldom, thraldom, enthrallment, subjugation, bondage, serfdom; feudalism, feudality † ;
vassalage, villenage; slavery, enslavement, involuntary servitude; conquest.
service; servitude, servitorship † ; tendence † , employ, tutelage, clientship † ; liability &c
177; constraint &c 751; oppression &c (severity) 739; yoke &c (means of restraint) 752;
submission &c 725; obedience &c 743.