free spirit

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free spirit

noun free spirits

  1. 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.

    Similar: eccentric, heteroclite, individualist, free spirit, deviant, deviate, maverick, misfit, nonconformist, offbeat

  2. historical 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.

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noun nonconformist

Españolespíritu libre
中文無拘無束的人, 无拘无束的人 wújūwúshù de rén, 隨性的人, 随性的人 suí xìng de rén
Françaisélectron libre, anticonformiste
DeutschFreigeist
Ελληνικάελεύθερο πνεύμα eléfthero pnévma
Românăspirit liber

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@misc{free_spirit_2026,
  title = {free spirit},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/free%20spirit},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}