free-lovingadj.
/ˌfriːˈlʌvɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌfriˈləvɪŋ/ That practises or advocates free love.
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1858 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Weekly Times 30 Sept. The Black Republican Journals, in this district, keep up a continual howl that their Nigger-Equality, Free-Loving candidate, Charley Case, is to be elected by an increased majority from last year.
1879 ‘G. Eliot’ Theophrastus Such xviii. 318 Affection which lifts us above emigrating rats and free-loving baboons.
1967 Times 13 Dec. 13/8 This is a little known aspect of our free-living, free-loving society.
2004 Independent 20 July 12/6 Because you were writing poetry in the 1960s, it doesn't mean you were a free-loving drug addict.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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