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Definition of Free-thinking
1. Adjective. Unwilling to accept authority or dogma (especially in religion).
Category relationships: Faith, Religion, Religious Belief
Similar to: Broad-minded
Derivative terms: Latitude, Latitude
Lexicographical Neighbors of Free-thinking
Literary usage of Free-thinking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of George Berkeley, D.D., Bishop of Cloyne by George Berkeley, John Dewey, Ferdinand Gregorovius, George Sampson, Annie Hamilton, Arthur James Balfour Balfour (1898)
"This piece has for its title, "A Discourse of free-thinking, occasioned by the
Rise and Growth of a Sect called Free-thinkers. ..."
2. The Works of George Berkeley ...: Including His Posthumous Works; with by George Berkeley (1901)
"Liberty of free-thinking. 5. Farther account of the views of free-thinkers. 6.
The progress of a free-thinker towards atheism. 7. ..."
3. Religious Thought in England, from the Reformation to the End of Last by John Hunt (1871)
"In 1713 Collins published 'A Discourse of free-thinking, 'Discourse of occasioned
... To go about to prove free-thinking a duty is to try to prove what is ..."
4. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1902)
"REMARKS ON A LATE DISCOURSE OF free-thinking 1713 Whereas the Reverend Dr.
Bentley, Master of Trinity College, besides his other labours published from our ..."
5. The British Essayists;: With Prefaces, Historical and Biographical, by Alexander Chalmers (1807)
"The instances I have lately seen of free-thinking, in the lower part of the world,
make me fear, they are going to be as fashionable and as wicked as their ..."
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