FREELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does freely mean? 

• FREELY (adverb)
  The adverb FREELY has 1 sense:

1. in a free manner

  Familiarity information: FREELY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FREELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a free manner

Context example:

the painting featured freely brushed strokes

Pertainym:

free (not limited or hampered; not under compulsion or restraint)

 Context examples 

But now, youngster, I have answered you freely, and I trow it is time that you answered me.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For the first time in many days I breathed freely.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“I am of a strange nature, perhaps,” Rosa Dartle went on; but I can't breathe freely in the air you breathe.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Again he said:— "Welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring!"

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

So they oiled his legs until he could move them freely; and he thanked them again and again for his release, for he seemed a very polite creature, and very grateful.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

We can all begin freely—a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The blood flowed freely in my veins, but a weight of despair and remorse pressed on my heart which nothing could remove.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

A published specification for storing digital data that is freely distributed and available to be used and implemented by anyone.

(Open Specification Data Format, NCI Thesaurus)

These loose bonds in its microscopic structure permit the molecules to rotate relatively freely.

(Green material for refrigeration identified, University of Cambridge)

For the first several times they walked freely, side by side, and after that it was arms around the waists, and heads against the fellows' shoulders where the streets were unlighted.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)