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Free state   /fri steɪt/   Listen
Free state

noun
1.
A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies.  Synonyms: Maryland, MD, Old Line State.
2.
Any state prohibiting slavery prior to the American Civil War.
3.
A province in central South Africa that was colonized by the Boers; named Free State in 1997.  Synonym: Orange Free State.



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"Free state" Quotes from Famous Books



... portion of the paper urges general considerations why the local government ought to be changed. "It requires no arguments to show," are its words, "that the inferior governments of a free State should be as similar to that of the supreme State as can well be. And it is self-evident that the excellency of the British Constitution consists in the equal balance of the regal and popular powers. If so, where the royal scale kicks ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 58, August, 1862 • Various

... a letter from some one in the Free State saying what a wonderful comfort and strength that little verse was in the midst of difficulties and troubles. Yes; but how can that peace be kept? It was the presence of Christ that brought the peace. When the storm was threatening ...
— 'Jesus Himself' • Andrew Murray

... and to some of them it is attributable that the enlightened public sentiment of New Hampshire was not, long since, made to operate upon this enactment, so anomalous in the fundamental law of a free state. ...
— Sketches and Studies • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... dyed in a dilute solution of Magenta (hydrochloride of rosaniline), the whole of the base (rosaniline) is taken up, and the whole of the acid (HCl) left in the bath, not, however, in the free state, but probably as NH{4}Cl, the ammonia being derived from the wool itself. A further proof of the acid nature of lanuginic acid is that wool may be dyed a fine magenta colour in a colourless solution of rosaniline ...
— The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics • Franklin Beech

... forms and under different names unite the southern with the northern churches, will make the experiment grateful to his feelings. Let him, then, as soon as his convenience will permit, proceed to Georgia. No religious teacher[B] from any free state, can be likely to receive so general and so warm a welcome there. To allay the heat, which the doctrines and movements of the abolitionists have occasioned in the southern mind, let him with as much despatch as possible collect, as he goes from place to place, masters and their ...
— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society


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