different between liberty vs aright

English

Etymology

From Middle English liberte, from Old French liberté, from Latin libertas (“freedom”), from liber (“free”); see liberal.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?l?b?ti/

Noun

liberty (countable and uncountable, plural liberties)

1. The condition of being free from control or restrictions.
2. The condition of being free from imprisonment, slavery or forced labour.

3. The condition of being free to act, believe or express oneself as one chooses.
4. Freedom from excessive government control.
5. A short period when a sailor is allowed ashore.

6. (often plural) A breach of social convention.

7. A local division of government administration in medieval England.
8. (game of Go) an empty space next to a group of stones of the same color.

Synonyms

• freedom

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Further reading

• liberty in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• liberty in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Liberty in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• liberty on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Liberty (division) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Birtley, Tribley

Italian

Noun

liberty m (invariable)

1. art nouveau

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /???a?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English ari?t, ariht, from Old English ?riht (“aright, properly”), from earlier *an riht, on riht (“rightly”), corresponding to a- +? right.

Adverb

aright (comparative more aright, superlative most aright)

1. Rightly, correctly; in the right way or form.
   • 1818: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley, chapter 24.

     Hear him not; call on the names of William, Justine, Clerval, Elizabeth, my father, and of the wretched Victor, and thrust your sword into his heart. I will hover near and direct the steel aright.
2. (archaic) To or on the right-hand side.
   • 1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer:

     Once more away! and now
     The long descent is seen,
     A long, long, narrow path.
     Ice rocks aright, and hills of snow,
     Aleft the giddy precipice.

Etymology 2

From Middle English arighten, arihten (“to raise up”); and Middle English iri?ten, irihten, ?erihten (“to make right, correct, erect”), from Old English ?erihtan (“to set right”), equivalent to a- +? right.

Verb

aright (third-person singular simple present arights, present participle arighting, simple past and past participle arighted)

1. (transitive) To make right; put right; arrange or treat properly.

Related terms

• eright

References

• aright in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Hartig, TIGHAR, graith