civil liberty

NOUN

fundamental individual rights

Synonyms

STRONGEST

civil rights freedom freedom of religion freedom of speech

WEAK

Four Freedoms God-given right constitutional freedom constitutional rights freedom from fear freedom from want freedom of expression freedom of worship political liberty rights

Example Sentences

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But civil liberty groups are worried that its accuracy is yet to be fully established, and point to cases such as Shaun Thompson's.

From BBC • May 25, 2024

When Einstein fled Germany he fled the poison of nationalism and longed for a country of civil liberty and tolerance.

From Salon • Feb. 24, 2024

Locke also differentiates between natural liberty, which grows out of natural law, and civil liberty, which is the product of governance by a commonwealth.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

“The civil liberty argument has ebbed and flowed,” said Adam Wagner, a London-based human rights lawyer and expert on Covid-related laws.

From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2021

It introduced civil liberty into the empire of tyranny, religion into the realm of superstition, and science into the depths of national ignorance.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various