freethinker
[free-thing-ker]
- a person who forms opinions on the basis of reason, independent of authority or tradition, especially a person whose religious opinions differ from established belief.
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Contemporary Examples
The responsibility of a freethinking adult is to learn how to make the right judgment.
David Foster Wallace, Traditionalist? Considering ‘Both Flesh and Not: Essays’David Masciotra
November 2, 2012
Historical Examples
Compare Bentley on Freethinking, from which much of this is derived.
The only tutor I valued—you, Koll—had been dismissed; they considered you to be too freethinking.
Three DramasBjrnstjerne M. Bjrnson
To these Protestants he would doubtless have joined the freethinking Bolingbroke.
Alexander PopeLeslie Stephen
There is positively a child-cultus in the great French cities, and especially in Freethinking Paris.
Flowers of FreethoughtGeorge W. Foote
But our Sham Rao had a slight tendency to freethinking, as we knew, and besides, he was too much of an admirer of Haeckel.
From the Caves and Jungles of HindostanHelena Pretrovna Blavatsky
freethinker
- a person who forms his or her ideas and opinions independently of authority or accepted views, esp in matters of religion
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