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unfree

adjective

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adjective Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). More about unfree at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

  1. Not free; lacking freedom, especially of a tenant who was bound to a manor.

noun

  1. A person lacking freedom, such as a tenant bound to a manor.

Origin

From Middle English unfre, from Old English [Term?], from Proto-West Germanic *unfrī; cognates include Middle High German unfrī (German unfrei), Middle Low German unvrī, Middle Dutch onvri (Dutch onvrij). By surface analysis, un- + free.

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