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23liberties — n. undue familiarity to take liberties with * * * [ undue familiarity ] to take liberties with …
24take a liberty with — to make an unwanted sexual approach Always by the male: Nobody ever tried to take a liberty with her. (M. McCarthy, 1963) Take liberties, meaning the same thing, is obsolete: ... [the licentious monk] proceeded to take still… …
25take berties — vb British a. to behave in a presumptuous or intru sive way b. to take advantage (of someone) ► You can stay but just don t go taking berties. The jocular phrase, used by university students from the later 1990s, is a shortening of the colloquial …
26Liberties — Liberty Lib er*ty (l[i^]b [ e]r*t[y^]), n.; pl. {Liberties} ( t[i^]z). [OE. liberte, F. libert[ e], fr. L. libertas, fr. liber free. See {Liberal}.] 1. The state of a free person; exemption from subjection to the will of another claiming… …
27take for granted — verb take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof (Freq. 3) I assume his train was late • Syn: ↑assume, ↑presume • Derivationally related forms: ↑presumptive (for: ↑ …
28Civil liberties in the United Kingdom — have a long and formative history. This is usually considered to have begun with the English legal charter the Magna Carta of 1215, following its predecessor the English Charter of Liberties, a landmark document in English legal history. Judicial …
29American Civil Liberties Union — Fo …
30Charter of Liberties — For the document written by William Penn, see Frame of Government of Pennsylvania. The Charter of Liberties, also called the Coronation Charter, was a written proclamation by Henry I of England, issued upon his accession to the throne in 1100. It …
