free spirits
free spirits is the plural of free spirit.
Meaning of free spirit
Noun
free spirit (plural free spirits)
- One who is a nonconformist or who does not recognize the authority of others.
- But Lucifer was a free spirit. To serve was to suffocate.1904, Jack London, chapter 26, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- eccentric, heteroclite, individualist, deviant, deviate, maverick, misfit, nonconformist, offbeat
- A member of the organized heretic movement Brethren of the Free Spirit in opposition of the Catholic Church from the 13th to 15th centuries.
- Free spirits sought paradise with the claim that only through the affirmation of sin could one negate it. The partisan of the Free Spirit did not incarnate sin. He […] incarnated God.1989, Greil Marcus, “The assault on Notre-Dame”, in Lipstick Traces, Faber & Faber, published 2009
Questions about free spirits
- What is free spirits the plural of?
- Free spirits is the plural of free spirit.
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