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CIVIL LIBERTY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fundamental individual right protected by law and expressed as immunity from unwarranted governmental interference
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("civil liberty" is a kind of...):
civil right (right or rights belonging to a person by reason of citizenship including especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th amendments and subsequent acts of Congress including the right to legal and social and economic equality)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Derivation:
civil-libertarian (having or showing active concern for protection of civil liberties protected by law)
Sense 2
Meaning:
One's freedom to exercise one's rights as guaranteed under the laws of the country
Synonyms:
civil liberty; political liberty
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("civil liberty" is a kind of...):
freedom (the condition of being free; the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints)
