How To Use freeborn In A Sentence
- Not at all," said Freeborn; "that was Melancthon's doctrine; he explained away a cardinal truth into a mere matter of words; he made faith a mere symbol, but this is a departure from the pure gospel: faith is the _instrument_, not a _symbol_ of justification. Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert
- It is precisely his tria nomina that signals unambiguously that he is a Roman citizen, whether freed or freeborn (slaves had only one name).
- Hurr"; the Latin "ingenuus," lit. freeborn; metaph. noble as opp. to a slave who is not expected to do great or good deeds. Arabian nights. English
- Among the free, the category of citizen was the largest, as it comprised both freeborn citizens and those who were freed slaves (libertini).
- Henry VII's belated sale of charters, granting whole communities in north Wales the status of freeborn Englishmen, anticipated the more general emancipation of the Welsh in 1536.
- In it, he raged against the loss of liberty that the industrial revolution and interfering government had imposed on the freeborn citizens of Albion.
- Overall, the result of the war was the ascension of England to world-power status, a victory in which the colonists shared and which enhanced their own self-image as freeborn Englishmen.
- He plans to introduce measures that will see freeborn Englishmen having every last detail of their every movement in and out of the country handed over to the State. Archive 2008-08-03
- Miss Freeborn opened her case by saying it was necessary further to interview Ms U and the Appellant.
- [FN#193] Or "freeborn," the Arabic word used here having this double meaning. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV
