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形容詞

unfree (comparative more unfree or unfreer or unfree-er, superlative unfree-est or unfreest or unfree-est)

1. Not free; lacking freedom, especially (historical) of a tenant who was bound to a manor.
   • 2002, Francis G. Gentry, The Nibelungen Tradition, page 142:

     By the time of the Nibelungenlied the word was used to denote a wide variety of usually ecclesiastic or royal administrators, from the lowest, unfree ministerial to an enfeoffed judge.

   • 2006, James R. Otteson, Actual Ethics, page 17:

     Economically free countries enjoy decentralized power, whereas the power in economically unfree countries is centralized.

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名詞

unfree (plural unfrees)

1. (historical) A person lacking freedom, such as a tenant bound to a manor.
   • 1863, James Paterson, History of the Counties of Ayr and Wigton (parts 1-2, page ccviii)

     The commissioners then proceeded to consider the various petitions and remonstrances of the unfrees, and to determine the amount to be levied from each.