liberty
li ber tee
- n immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence
 - n  freedom of choice
                    
                        
                            
liberty of opinion
liberty of worship
liberty--perfect liberty--to think or feel or do just as one pleases
at liberty to choose whatever occupation one wishes - n personal freedom from servitude or confinement or oppression
 - n leave granted to a sailor or naval officer
 - n an act of undue intimacy
 
- He also imagines "freedom" and "liberty" from within a white gentry and elite whose family lives were cushioned by the invisible labors of nameless slaves.