free-thinkern.

Brit.

/ˈfriːˌθɪŋkə/, U.S.

/ˈfriˌθɪŋkər/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: free adv., thinker n.

Etymology: < free adv. + thinker n. Compare free-thinking n., free-thinking adj., and slightly later free-thought n.

A person who professes to or is known for independence of thought, esp. one who withholds assent to widely held beliefs or ideas; spec. a person who refuses to submit his or her reason to the control of authority in matters of religious belief; (chiefly with capital initials) any of the rationalists, prominent from the early 18th cent., who rejected Christianity on the grounds of reason (now historical).The sect mentioned in quot. ?1700 seems to be identical with the ‘free seekers’ (quot. 1693 for freeseeker n. at free adj., n., and adv. Compounds 1a).

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society > faith > aspects of faith > free thought > [noun] > person

libertine1547

free-thinker?1700

liberalist1804

?1700 S. Smith (title) The Religious Imposter..Dedicated to Doctor S—lm—n, and the rest of the new Religious Fraternity of Free-Thinkers.

1708 J. Swift Sentiments Church of Eng.-man i, in Misc. (1711) 100 The Atheists, Libertines, Despisers of Religion..that is to say, all those who usually pass under the Name of Free-Thinkers.

1723 New Eng. Courant 3 June 2/2 He was accounted one of those call'd Free-Thinkers, and had formerly belong'd to that tribe in England.

1769 W. Richardson Let. Jan. in Anecd. Russ. Empire (1784) vii. 46 Voltaire..celebrates all princes that are free-thinkers, and that pay him for his adulation.

1836 H. Smith Tin Trumpet I. 227 Freethinker..has come to be synonymous with a libertine and a contemner of religion.

1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair xlv. 402 He (who had been..inclined to be a sad freethinker on these points) entered into poaching and game preserving with ardour.

1874 J. Morley On Compromise 118 The modern freethinker does not attack it [sc. Christianity]; he explains it.

1914 A. Berkman in Mother Earth Apr. 37 The Tannenbaum raids have accomplished more in tearing off the mask of religious hypocrisy than the year-long propaganda of freethinkers.

1968 A. J. Ayer Humanist Outlook 4 Present-day humanists are in fact the intellectual heirs of those nineteenth-century free-thinkers.

1988 L. Appignanesi Simone de Beauvoir i. 10 Although Simone's father may have been a free-thinker in matters of religion, his political sympathies were for the extreme right wing.

2000 Pract. Classics June 61/2 Chapman really established his credentials as a brilliant free-thinker with the Lotus Mk VI of 1952.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	free-thinker
释义	free-thinkern. Brit. /ˈfriːˌθɪŋkə/, U.S. /ˈfriˌθɪŋkər/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: free adv., thinker n. Etymology: < free adv. + thinker n. Compare free-thinking n., free-thinking adj., and slightly later free-thought n. A person who professes to or is known for independence of thought, esp. one who withholds assent to widely held beliefs or ideas; spec. a person who refuses to submit his or her reason to the control of authority in matters of religious belief; (chiefly with capital initials) any of the rationalists, prominent from the early 18th cent., who rejected Christianity on the grounds of reason (now historical).The sect mentioned in quot. ?1700 seems to be identical with the ‘free seekers’ (quot. 1693 for freeseeker n. at free adj., n., and adv. Compounds 1a). ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > free thought > [noun] > person libertine1547 free-thinker?1700 liberalist1804 ?1700 S. Smith (title) The Religious Imposter..Dedicated to Doctor S—lm—n, and the rest of the new Religious Fraternity of Free-Thinkers. 1708 J. Swift Sentiments Church of Eng.-man i, in Misc. (1711) 100 The Atheists, Libertines, Despisers of Religion..that is to say, all those who usually pass under the Name of Free-Thinkers. 1723 New Eng. Courant 3 June 2/2 He was accounted one of those call'd Free-Thinkers, and had formerly belong'd to that tribe in England. 1769 W. Richardson Let. Jan. in Anecd. Russ. Empire (1784) vii. 46 Voltaire..celebrates all princes that are free-thinkers, and that pay him for his adulation. 1836 H. Smith Tin Trumpet I. 227 Freethinker..has come to be synonymous with a libertine and a contemner of religion. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair xlv. 402 He (who had been..inclined to be a sad freethinker on these points) entered into poaching and game preserving with ardour. 1874 J. Morley On Compromise 118 The modern freethinker does not attack it [sc. Christianity]; he explains it. 1914 A. Berkman in Mother Earth Apr. 37 The Tannenbaum raids have accomplished more in tearing off the mask of religious hypocrisy than the year-long propaganda of freethinkers. 1968 A. J. Ayer Humanist Outlook 4 Present-day humanists are in fact the intellectual heirs of those nineteenth-century free-thinkers. 1988 L. Appignanesi Simone de Beauvoir i. 10 Although Simone's father may have been a free-thinker in matters of religion, his political sympathies were for the extreme right wing. 2000 Pract. Classics June 61/2 Chapman really established his credentials as a brilliant free-thinker with the Lotus Mk VI of 1952. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?1700
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