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单词 free state
释义 free state
1. Occasionally = republic. Now rare.
1646Fuller Wounded Consc. (1841) 330 As all countries are not monarchies governed by kings, but some by free⁓states, where many together have equal power.1727–41Chambers Cycl., Free State.1850Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) I. ii. 54 Names conspicuous in the municipal annals of the free state.
2. U.S. Before the Civil War of 1861–5, a state of the Union in which slavery did not exist.
1861Lowell E Pluribus Unum Prose Wks. 1890 V. 47 He would..have received the unanimous support of the Free States.1888Bryce Amer. Commw. II. iii. liii. 334 New States had been admitted substantially in pairs, a slave State balancing a free State.
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