freeer

See also: free-er and freeër

English

Adjective

freeer

1. Misspelling of freer.
   • 1711, George Mackenzie, The Lives and Characters of the Most Eminent Writers of the Scots, page 313:

     That in restoring again to Scotland the Lands of Huntington, Cumberland and Northumberland, and such other Lands as Scotland did of old possess in England, that Homage should be made for the saids Lands, but as for the Crown and Kingdom of Scotland, they never held of England, and they had been freeer than England had been, who of late had paid St. Peter's Penny, which Scotland had never been brought to do...

   • 2005, David William Bebbington, The Dominance of Evangelicalism: The Age of Spurgeon and Moody, page 148:

     They wanted to escape the tight framework of thinking imposed by the older rational approach in order to breathe a freeer air.

   • 2008, Joke de Lange, Article Omission in Headlines and Child Language: A Processing Approach, page 203:

     It will be far easier for the child to produce a high number of correct determiners than in the case of a freeer conversation.

References

• “freeer”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.