free spirit

noun

Definitions

  1. One who is a nonconformist or who does not recognize the authority of others.

    • But Lucifer was a free spirit. To serve was to suffocate.
    • —“And thou,” said Zarathustra to the wanderer and shadow, “thou callest and thinkest thyself a free spirit? And thou here practisest such idolatry and hierolatry?
  2. A member of the organized heretic movement Brethren of the Free Spirit in opposition of…

    A member of the organized heretic movement Brethren of the Free Spirit in opposition of the Catholic Church from the 13th to 15th centuries.

    • Free spirits sought paradise with the claim that only through the affirmation of sin could one negate it. The partisan of the Free Spirit did not incarnate sin. He […] incarnated God.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA