Directed toward or tending toward freedom; moving in the direction of liberty or unrestricted action.
From 'free' + '-ward' (toward a direction, as in 'forward,' 'backward'). This is an archaic or poetic formation rarely used in contemporary English, likely appearing most in historical or literary texts.
Words ending in '-ward' are fun linguistic fossils—we use 'forward' and 'toward' constantly, but 'freeward' shows how productive that suffix was; speakers could theoretically create any number of '-ward' words.
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